In an effort to address the client side of the equation, LISA has released the first in a series of Best Practice Guides that will examine topics of importance to the GILT industry and promote best practices for dealing with those topics. This first Guide focuses on the steps clients can take to help ensure that they are providing their solutions provider with the necessary materials and information to provide a quality localization. The Guide addresses topics such as selecting an appropriate partner, organizing files, checking source material, resolving problems and planning for localization. While the Guide is aimed primarily at neophytes to localization, it contains the distilled insights of some of the best localization managers on the client side of the business and will be useful even to seasoned veterans.

Available as a free download from the LISA web site, the 39 page document contains a series of questions and answers on topics of fundamental importance, articles from the archives of the Globalization Insider, and the Localization Project Bill of Materials (a checklist of common items that can be used to assure project completeness and the accuracy of the delivered materials).