How to streamline in-country reviews
Written by ForeignExchange Translations on Wednesday, March 18, 2009
We recently pronounced that 90% of in-country reviews are a waste of time.
Vacation schedules, internal politics, and miscommunication across time zones make translation in-country reviews an expensive and time-consuming process. Nevertheless, in-country reviews remain a reality for many medical device companies. How should these companies go about streamlining their in-country reviews?
At ForeignExchange, we have found that more and more clients improve their in-country reviews - by having somebody else do them. And for those device companies that aren't quite ready to outsource their reviews, a process we call R.E.V.I.E.W. optimizes in-country reviews:
R esearch and understand the situation between the client, the reviewers, and the vendor E valuate the nature of overseas office (i.e., technology, staffing, capabilities) V isit to build personal relationships I nvolve reviewers in the development of translation and review processes E nable the technology - upgrade local hardware and software for electronic reviews W atch for opportunities to improve the process
Proper planning, communication, vendor relations, and a good R.E.V.I.E.W. allow technical writers to improve translation turnaround times, reduce translation costs - and it may even help avoid a few headaches. Happy reviewing!
ForeignExchange Translations provides outsourced third-party reviews and specialized medical translation services to medical device companies.
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1 - Explanations help weed out the subjective and not necessary changes before they are even made.
2 - Adding explanations to the changes may take more time for the Reviewer but would save time to all others involved in the process down the line, and thus reduce the cost to the client.
It may be redundant to add, but verify that the in-country reviewers are actually native speakers of the target language.
Take care,
Marta Stemberger, MA
Arinna Inc Language Services
Specializing in South Slavic Languages