Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
capitalisation d'expérience
English translation:
capitalising on experience
Added to glossary by
B D Finch
Jun 8, 2010 07:44
13 yrs ago
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French term
France
Excellence, Expertise & Experience
Native in: English (Variants: Irish, British, Wales / Welsh, UK, Scottish)
Works in: French to English, English
capitalisation d'expérience
French to English
Bus/Financial
Management
Management mumbo-jumbo?
"Une capitalisation d’expérience sur la construction des capacités de management dans une [banking sector organisation] au Cambodge"
// retour d'expérience
Adding to capital?
Further examples of usage here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="capitalisation d'exp...
// retour d'expérience
Adding to capital?
Further examples of usage here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="capitalisation d'exp...
Proposed translations
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Change log
Sep 20, 2010 11:33: B D Finch Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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capitalising on experience
This would be the UK version. For the US, I'd go with Hamidou's "experience capitalization"
"He directs Montague Capital's future growth by capitalising on his experience and entrepreneurial flair. Away from Montague Capital Julian enjoys football ..."
www.montague.co.uk/montague-team.php
"Understanding the importance of effective systems and strategies in business growth and customer service, and capitalising on many years experience in the ..."
www.splash-solutions.co.uk/about-crm/faqs/
"he new card features Barclaycard's responsible approach to lending while capitalising on Orange's experience in mobile and will allow ..."
newsroom.orange.co.uk/.../orange-and-barclaycard-deliver-next-step-in-their-partnership-with-contactless-co-branded-credit-card-2/
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Or "capitalizing".
"He directs Montague Capital's future growth by capitalising on his experience and entrepreneurial flair. Away from Montague Capital Julian enjoys football ..."
www.montague.co.uk/montague-team.php
"Understanding the importance of effective systems and strategies in business growth and customer service, and capitalising on many years experience in the ..."
www.splash-solutions.co.uk/about-crm/faqs/
"he new card features Barclaycard's responsible approach to lending while capitalising on Orange's experience in mobile and will allow ..."
newsroom.orange.co.uk/.../orange-and-barclaycard-deliver-next-step-in-their-partnership-with-contactless-co-branded-credit-card-2/
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Or "capitalizing".
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Charlie Bavington
: sure, this is much better. Incidentally, I too can get 2 million hits on google.com (for exp. cap.) if I commit the error of not putting it in quotes - in quotes with US spelling, it's still only 3,800, against 71,000 for "leveraging experience"
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Thanks Charlie. Weird: I did put it in quotes when Googling, but now also only get 3,800!
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Chris Hall
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Thanks Chris
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Bourth (X)
: That'z what I mozt frequently zay. "Capitalize on experience" = 10,500 ghitz. NB "-ise" is just ONE form of British usage, the other (Oxford and Cambridge University presses, The Times) being "-ize"./ "ize" / "ise" in BE is a bit like a masonic handshake.
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Thanks Bourth. Actually, "ize" is generally preferred in UK English unless there is an etymological reason to use "ise", but "ise" was the preferred version when I went to school and it saves knowing too much about etymology. I find it looks less harsh.
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mimi 254
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Thanks mimi
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Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
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Thanks Sangro
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Isabelle17
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Thanks Isabelle
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Julie Barber
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Thanks juliebarba
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Charles Hawtrey (X)
: How about saying 'building on' for simpler EN without the -ize / -ise chestnut rearing its ugly head? Admittedly it looks less like management speak.
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Thanks Charles. "Building on" doesn't sound quite as energetic and has a slightly different meaning. Also "building" will probably be needed to translate "construction" later in the same sentence.
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joehlindsay
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leveraging experience (gained)
This is one term I've found sometimes works for 'capitaliser' — and my instinct seems to be borne out by certain EN > FR translations I've come across that use it this way.
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Charlie Bavington
: leveraging is what I often use (ugly word though it is)
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Thanks, CB! Yes, I agree about the ugliness ;-) But I have seen it used this way a lot in EN > FR
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B D Finch
: Leaveraging is, indeed, an ugly word, but it is sometimes required. I think it has more to do with multipliers and proportional influence of factors.
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Thanks, Barbara! I'm sure you know more about it than I! All I can say is that I have often found 'leveraging' translated as 'capitalisation' in authoritative FR docs — so who am I to argue?
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philgoddard
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Thanks, Phil!
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Hamidou Ouédraogo
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Native in French
Works in field
Burkina Faso
Quality First!
Native in: Mossi 
, French
Works in: English to French, French to English
experience capitalization
Experience capitalization refers to the transformation of (individual and ... Experience capitalization is one method of reviewing experiences in order to ...
www.daretoshare.ch/.../Experience capitalisation/Experience...
17 Apr 2010 ... "In an experience capitalization, key stakeholders transform individual and institutional experience and knowledge into capital that can be ...
www.kstoolkit.org/Experience Capitalization -
7 Jun 2009 ... Experience capitalization is "the transition from experience to shareable ... The experience capitalization process usually consists of the ...
www.ilo.org/public/english/.../capture.htm
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This is a link to the whole SDC Management Toolkit document:
www.deza.admin.ch/ressources/resource_en_183581.pdf
www.daretoshare.ch/.../Experience capitalisation/Experience...
17 Apr 2010 ... "In an experience capitalization, key stakeholders transform individual and institutional experience and knowledge into capital that can be ...
www.kstoolkit.org/Experience Capitalization -
7 Jun 2009 ... Experience capitalization is "the transition from experience to shareable ... The experience capitalization process usually consists of the ...
www.ilo.org/public/english/.../capture.htm
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This is a link to the whole SDC Management Toolkit document:
www.deza.admin.ch/ressources/resource_en_183581.pdf
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Philippa Smith
: Just the answer and references I was about to post!
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Thanks Philippa.
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Tony M
: Sadly, can't make links #1 and #3 above work, and link #2 points to #1 anyway; I am suspicious, though that both #1 and #3 seem to have FR origins, so this might well be a translation already.
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See Discussion Entry. Thank You.
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Charlie Bavington
: I share Tony's concerns that this term has only a few hundred hits, and many seem to be either translations or from French-speaking origins, no matter how well expressed it all is. I wouldn't say it's wrong, just better options exist, IMHO.
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Good point, Charlie. Thank You!
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B D Finch
: Unlike Charlie, I get nearly 2 million hits for this expression. However, not from UK sources: it is US English rather than UK English.//Now only get 3,800 ghits!
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Thanks BD.
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French term (edited):
capitalisation d\'expérience
experience capitalisation
Accumulating experience capital to prepare change processes
A conceptual definition of experience capitalization
Experience capitalization refers to the transformation of (individual and institutional) knowledge into capital by those directly involved in order to change...
A conceptual definition of experience capitalization
Experience capitalization refers to the transformation of (individual and institutional) knowledge into capital by those directly involved in order to change...
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Helene Tammik
Native in English
Une belle plume - en anglais
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Swedish to English
consolidation of experience
gives the sense of 'building on' and 'squeezing maximum value out of'
Discussion
And your link #1 ref. in fact also refers to the same document — so all 3 refs. refer, directly or indirectly, to the same (translated) source.
I'm not saying the suggested term is wrong — I'd just feel less uneasy if I could find an example of its correct use in an EN-source document.
On a more instinctive level, I feel the collocation is a little unfortunate, since at first reading it could so easily be misinterpreted as "(to) experience (the phenomenon of) capitalization" — almost the opposite of the required sense.
Accumulating Experience Capital to Prepare Change Processes" a section of the SDC Knowledge Management Toolkit.
Below is Link 3 in my references. It leads to the ILO website . http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/knowledgeshari...