Ricoh's Take on the Future Workplace is Purely Innovation Driven

What comes to mind when you think of the traditional office workplace? Nigh would think of cramped cubicles, meetings rooms with filled with cable-strewn tables with piles of printed documents, and working with photocopiers that are likely to jam up. Ricoh seeks to modify all that.

These all too familiar scenes for most who work at conventional offices will no longer be office mainstays as the Japanese part automation brand just introduced its next-gen accept on business processes.

Called 'Workstyle Innovation', information technology encompasses the concept of connecting business processes and making them seamlessly accessible to all. When applied properly, This new concept is designed to revolutionise the way businesses, of varying sizes, conduct their operations. Ricoh believes that this will pave the way for next-gen workers and those that come after them.

Ricoh is doing this in conjunction with its 80th Anniversary festivities.

"With the loftier usage of smart and mobile devices permeating the workplace, nosotros want to give businesses the right gear they need to ensure seamless and speedier access to their information. We are positive that the new workstyle process volition increase productivity and heighten efficiency in the office every bit it provides the correct infrastructure to operate their business organization," said Nick Tan, General Manager of Marketing of Ricoh Malaysia.

In wanting to innovate business processes, Ricoh has incorporated multiple technology elements such as Internet of Things (IoT), connected platforms, and multi-device management. All these and their related systems are used to address key technological concerns of customers. In Ricoh's case, it developed six specific areas of focus to transform the workplace:

Intelligent Device: This aspect focuses on all of Ricoh's cadre products and its various developmental offerings.
Mobility: Provides seamless and secure integration with mobile devices and ensure users are able to access their information they need anytime, anywhere.

Business Process: Offers value-adds that can exist deployed into Ricoh's devices directly to back up business organization processes every bit well as be used to customise processes that optimise workflow.
Cloud: Includes hyper-connectivity and advanced service provisions that supports enhanced productivity.
Connected Part: Integrates devices together to ensure information is delivered in multiple formats, across multiple devices and locations so they can shared, accessed and acted upon seamlessly, whether users are in or out of the office.

Democratic Support: Supports comprehensive remote assistance, as well as onboard video for customer environments and primal business process that are constantly changing and needing diverse devices bachelor every bit and when needed.

To engage these six pertinent aspects, Ricoh developed and updated four key portfolios to further exemplify its 'Workstyle Innovation' concept. Showtime amongst the four, and used to empower the other iii, is the Ricoh Smart Device Connector App. This platform links upwards assigned mobile devices to all the latest Ricoh function automation too as enables comprehensive file sharing and work collaborations among office colleagues. The app acts as the central control eye that ensures anybody is on the aforementioned page and prevent whatever class of misunderstanding to occur.

With the app, which is available on Android and iOS, the other three Ricoh device lines—multi-office printers (MFP), interactive whiteboards (IWB), and projectors—can exist seamlessly engaged and used to ramp up office productivity.

"Processes are now being augmented with new technologies on many levels. Thus, businesses demand to change and adapt to these developments or take chances being left behind. This is the main reason Ricoh updated basic work processes with new innovations that ensure it would work with current and upcoming disruptive trends. If we don't practice this, no one else will," Tan added.

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