Why LISA?

Community

LISA was founded in 1991 to enable companies and individuals share experience and build a community of those involved with the processes needed to adapt products for local markets. By working together in LISA, LISA members successfully created a new industry—the localization industry—and have raised the profile of their activities to the point that increasing numbers of corporations are treating product globalization as an area of strategic importance. By joining LISA, you will be part of a community of excellence.

As part of this community, LISA members enjoy unique promotional opportunities, free publications on relevant topics, discounts on attending conference and workshops, and access to the individuals who define the the globalization/localization industry.

Best Practice

Globalization is a complex process, one in which seemingly small decisions can turn out to have a large impact. Because of this complexity, a body of best practice has developed that helps companies improve their globalization processes and avoid problems. Much of this best practice has developed within the LISA community, and LISA works actively to document these best practices in its series of LISA Best Practice Guides.

Standards

Standards are the “glue” that holds processes together. Standards help reduce globalization costs, improve time-to-market an time-to-profit, and promote freedom and interoperability. LISA’s standards are widely implemented and used in globalization processes. All LISA standards are free and open for anyone to use. LISA members are invited to participate in OSCAR, LISA’s standards committee, to help define these standards, and to use and promote them. Learn more…