Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
what needs to be implemented to deliver excellence
French translation:
quelles sont les mesures à appliquer pour atteindre l'excellence...
English term
what needs to be implemented
ça fait partie d'une série de points, et je n'aime pas ma formulation - en plus, chaque point, commence de la même façon :
what needs...
what business...
ce genre de choses va bien en anglais, mais en français, ça donne quelque chose comme ça :
Qu’est-ce qui doit être exécuté pour livrer l’excellence dans la chaîne logistique totale pour la base de l’entreprise, soit la planification des ressources, être meilleur dans sa catégorie, et pour les systèmes de soutien?
commence à être un peu fatiguée ce soir ;-)
des suggestions? pas de derby de démolition svp ;-)
Feb 4, 2006 13:34: JCEC changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Jun 26, 2011 09:46: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Term asked" from "what needs to be implemented... (phrase)" to "what needs to be implemented"
Non-PRO (1): df49f (X)
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Proposed translations
quelles sont les mesures à appliquer pour atteindre l'excellence...
ce qui doit être mis en oeuvre
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Annabelle Vergne
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Merci Annabelle
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Jacqueline Johnston
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Richard Benham
: Since when do questions begin with "Ce qui"?
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Spain
Translator, Project Manager & SEO*
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Flemish to French, Spanish to French, and 2 more.
Condition de mise en oeuvre
pour éviter le "qu'est-ce que"
ou "Pour ...., il convient de ..."
La mise en oeuvre implique blabla
"pour livrer l’excellence" je dirais "pour tendre à la perfection"
enfin, quelques idées pour renverser tes phrases
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Jacques Desnoyers
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PFB (X)
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Richard Benham
: It's not about conditions for implementing things, it's about implementing things as a precondition for something else.
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ATA certified English-French translator
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
Ce qui doit etre mis en oeuvre
France
When quality counts
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, English
Que faut-il pour...?
If you are in love with "imlemented", there's always "Que faut-il mettre en oeuvre pour ...?"
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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-02-04 10:17:46 GMT)
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Or "Que faut-i faire pour ...?" Why not?
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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-02-04 10:20:09 GMT)
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Ooops "faut-il".
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Premium✍️
: with the tone and register.
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Well, the original is crap.I know it's not the translator's job to improve crap, but there's no law against it and sometimes it's easier.
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Marie-Andree Dionne
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Critère d'application
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Note added at 12 hrs (2006-02-04 15:01:23 GMT)
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For questions you can easily say:
Quel est le CRITÈRE à APPLIQUER ?
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Delia Georgescu
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Jacques Desnoyers
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Richard Benham
: It's not about criteria, it's about what you have to do.//Your distinction is rubbish: clearly "what's to be done" and "what you have to do" are synonymous (you=one). Your totally unrefined answer has next to no relation to the sense of the original.
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It's about WHAT has to be done, not YOU... The answer is correct even if you misunderstood the refined French wording.// I don't answer to personal insults even though you can get away with breaking the KudoZ rules...
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Canada
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Native in: French
Works in: English to French
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