One Brand, One Voice: The Post-Acquisition Playbook for Localization
- Presentation
- GALA
- 10. November
- 09:00 AM (CET) - 09:45 AM (CET)
- C7.1
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Nadine Lai
- Coupa
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Ramona Wühle
- Coupa Deutschland GmbH
Contents
Mergers and acquisitions are increasingly common for growing global companies, and localization teams need to be ready to support brand integration across languages, products, and teams. Combining terminology, quality standards, workflows, tools, language assets, and vendor structures require clear coordination and practical decision-making to maintain a consistent multilingual brand experience. This session explores the strategic and operational challenges of integrating one organization’s processes, technologies, and linguistic standards into another existing structure, along with the risks and benefits associated with each approach. We will share practical use cases and lessons learned from supporting brand and localization integration after acquisitions and will cover how to align terminology and style guides, harmonize quality standards and review practices, consolidate workflows and language assets, and establish governance models that support both scalability and consistency across multilingual content ecosystems. The session will also address the operational and human aspects of integration, including stakeholder alignment and buy-in across teams, communication during process changes, and maintaining linguistic quality while responsibilities evolve. In addition, we will discuss how AI-supported workflows and language technologies can help teams accelerate integration efforts, identify inconsistencies, support terminology alignment, and improve scalability after a merger or acquisition.
Takeaways
Key takeaways: 1. Unifying the Brand Experience: Practical approaches for aligning terminology, style guides, quality standards, and localization processes to maintain a consistent multilingual brand voice after a merger or acquisition. 2. Managing Change Across Teams: Strategies for navigating stakeholder alignment, team integration, communication, and the human aspects of organizational change during post-M&A integration. 3. Building Scalable Integration Frameworks: How AI-supported workflows and language technologies can help accelerate consolidation efforts, identify inconsistencies, and support long-term scalability across localization operations.