Consulting

Whether you plan on simply localizing a web site, documentation, or software application, or also need to internationalize your software development, or perhaps have other needs including designing efficient and scalable processes to manage your growing globalization endeavors, all such efforts need to grasp the underlying globalization business goals of your organization, so that your budgets are properly utilized. Therefore, all of our offerings start with or include some amount of Globalization Strategy Consulting.

Our in-depth Globalization Strategy Assessment is a three-pronged analysis of your business processes, people and technical environment. To fully understand the scope of your project, an EGS consultant interviews all key players in your organization, analyzes your current IT environment, content creation, and localization processes, and examines the objectives for your globalization initiative. Timelines, resources, and content volumes are also considered as input to our assessment. Based on this comprehensive data gathering and a gap analysis, our globalization experts create a detailed report that summarizes our findings and enumerates our recommendations to remediate the gaps, and define your long-term sustainable globalization strategy. The set of recommendation and the underlying strategy forms your Globalization Program designed to reach your globalization business goals successfully and within the planned launch timelines, and maintain them after that.

The recommendations may include establishing new processes, improving existing processes, staffing, training programs, and technology implementations including Translation Management Systems (TMS), Content Management Systems (CMS) among others and as appropriate.

If desired this service can be combined with a Globalization Roadmap or ROI service to help you plan how to execute on these recommendations, and identify the budget implications of applying the new strategy.