A competitive advantage for both the client and for the service provider. Presentation from ProZ.com Austrian Regional Conference, Vienna, 27-29 November 2009

2. Meet Cabiria

3. A.K.A.

4. We’re doing this... ...just for money.

5. But they say we’re good at it.

6. Qabiria was established…

7. February 2008

8. located… is

9. nowhere

10. well, in the “cloud”

12. and offers...

13. consulting

14. training

15. translation

16. and believes in...

17. improving the productivity creative use of technology. of language service providers by making

19. It’s a story that begins at ProZ.com and ends at ProZ.com

20. In a conference mostly for freelancers I will talk about “employee-like status” and “shared revenues”.

21. This is a conference about translation and I won’t talk about translation...

22. Today we will talk about...

23. Project management outsourcing: a competitive advantage for both the client and for the service provider

24. widen your horizon evolve. expand. learn.

25. What’s this all about? It’s about playing a card you didn’t think you had .

26. For language service providers, project management means ...

27. a real career evolution

28. a more diversified job

29. learning new skills

30. Why should you think about enlarging the scope of your activity?

31. Translation can become a repetitive task

32. Translation today does not always offer career evolutions

33. Why is project management a good opportunity ?

34. Because it’s the “natural” expansion of translating expertise

35. Because it provides a freelance translator with complementary technical and managerial skills

36. Because good project managers are very demanded and hard to find.

37. What does a project manager actually do ?

39. So, what does project management require ?

42. ...and the right tools too.

43. And now, from theory to practice ...

44. A case study

45. This story begins at a Proz forum...

46. After that, we got in contact ...

47. ...we discussed the practical details of the collaboration...

48. ...and agreed on a shared-revenue remuneration

49. We also agreed on time-related issues...

50. ...and on a clear division of responsibilities.

51. As a remote collaboration tool, we used our favourite software:

52. ...and our second favourite tool to find the right professionals:

53. The results?

54. More flexibility, more freedom, immediate expertise ready for PCI

55. A real career evolution, a more diversified job and better valued services for Cabiria. Q

56. succeeded in this evolution and can help you doing the same: www.qabiria.com thank you