The aspect we consider to be the most important in our industry is providing high quality project management and translations. High quality is measured by clients’ satisfaction and ensuring the project achieves the objectives for the target audience and region.
Effective project management is the key to success for quality translations, focusing on:
- Efficiency - in directing people, translation process, terminology and consistency
- Team cohesion – working together and understanding each person’s role within the process
- Communication - ensuring you know what is going on and when
We work closely with our clients to identify a customised QA process that meets your business and regulatory requirements. We can help to analyse existing QA procedures and develop new ones, making sure these are appropriate for your needs.
It is vital for us at thebigword to be able to measure and monitor the quality of our translations and projects. Regular checks are made to evaluate quality, including:
- Monitoring our translators, running thorough comparisons between source and target texts.
- Measuring productivity and quality within project management – and looking where further efficiencies can be made.
- Quality control exercises – full review of a project, looking at the compliance of the final translation in accordance with predefined criteria.
- Independent revision – by an external reviewer.
We have stringent quality check procedures in place if quality is identified as an issue and we perform checks across translation, accuracy, terminology, language, style, regional context and consistency and provide full reports on our findings.
thebigword became one of the first language companies in the world to achieve ISO 9001:2008 certification for our commitment to quality translation. All thebigword translators are thoroughly vetted and rigorously tested to ensure that they meet the translation quality both ourselves and our clients demand. They must have recognised qualifications in translation, as well as qualifications within their professional area of expertise, so we can be sure they will provide the quality translation services we insist on.
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