Interview: RWS Moravia Blog
As they look to foreign markets to drive revenues, global enterprises are building up their localization programs. These departments are big—nearly 60% of the revenue of international companies comes from foreign markets—yet universities have been slow to build programs to train people to work in the localization industry. Max Troyer, Program Chair of the Translation and Localization Management (TLM) program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) in Monterey, California, is working to change that by training students to be the localization project managers of the future. We spoke to Max to understand the needs of global businesses and what his department provides. Download a PDF of the interview here.