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Creating and Serving Relevant Content
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Handling DITA Topics and Translation in a Regulated Industry
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Marketing in a Connected World
Migrating to Structured Authoring on Your Way To XML
Phase 2 - What’s Next for Life Sciences and Enterprise Content Management
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Transforming Technology Transfer and Recipe Management
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Your Global Audience is Already Here
[Case Study] Physician, Know Thy User
[Workshop] Analyzing Your Deliverables
[Workshop] Content Modeling for Life Sciences Content
[Workshop] Creating High Quality Content that Communicates Across Language Barriers
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[Workshop] Product Life Cycles in the Life Sciences Industry
Session Details
[Workshop] Product Life Cycles in the Life Sciences Industry: FAQ for the Vendor Selection Process
Speaker: Tina CargileTime: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Date: June 26
Track: Post-Conference Workshops
Experience level: All levels
Life Sciences companies are not alone in their need to carefully consider linguistic and cultural issues as part of their global strategy, but the highly regulated nature of the industry does result in some unique aspects of the problem. In particular, these issues run the gamut of the product life cycle from product development, through clinical trials to eventual product release and marketing. Since these various activities are distributed among functional units in the typical life sciences company, the outside “language services provider” (LSP) sometimes has a better grasp on the “big picture” than any of the buy-side participants. Even in cases where there is centralized procurement of language services, the different linguistic requirements pertaining to different phases of the product life cycle may not be fully appreciated.
This workshop will cover a multitude of frequently asked questions designed to help you use the vendor selection process to meet the variety of linguistic needs through the product life cycle and will include viewpoints of both the buyer and seller, with time included for participant Q&A. We will present a framework for understanding the scope of the vendor selection process, identifying opportunities to formalize or improve existing processes, and for leveraging technology at various stages of the product life-cycle. We will also suggest approaches to getting the most value from your LSP partner(s).
