杰弗里·萨缪尔森-布朗(Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown)是一位经验丰富的译者和商业顾问,从一名自由译者发展为Aardvark翻译服务有限公司创始人与董事长,拥有30多年翻译经验与企业管理经验,曾在英国萨里大学(University of Surrey)教授翻译实践、翻译技术、译员服务意识等课程,著有《译者实用指南》(A PracticalGuide for Translators)等书。
目录
List of Figures
Foreword
Dedication
Preface
Technological change
Getting the balance right
1 Introduction
Setting up a translation business
Summary of tasks for setting up a company
What type of organisation?
2 Organisational Development
Write a business plan!
Making the decisions
Making the transition from a single practitioner
Determine where the organisation wants to be
Diagnose the present state
3 The Business Plan
What services resources do you plan to offer?
All languages in all subjects?
From where are you going to run your business?
Overview
Delegation and departmentalisation
The organisation and its industry
Developing services
4 An Introduction to Quality Management
ISO 9001:2000
European standard for translation services
Documented quality management from the outset
Quality policy
Commitment
Quality gap analysis
Benchmarking and quality management
Quality framework
Contract review
Project management
Pre-delivery checks on translations
Communication and understanding
Quality Procedures
Document control
Control of documents
Approval prior to issue
Document status
Other documents
Records
Management reviews
Product realisation
Order registration
Customer focus
Benchmarking customers
Customer complaints