Konica Minolta’s cloud play is crucial for office comeback

Aside from commercial real estate dealers, office equipment vendors were among the hardest hit by the massive office evacuation following the pandemic. But the death of the office was much exaggerated, say some affected CIOs, who point to an increasing number of corporate mandates for employees to return to the office for at least three days per week as the telltale of better business ahead for them. [ Learn from your peers: Check out our State of the CIO report on the challenges and concerns of CIOs today. | Find out the 7 skills of successful digital leaders and the secrets of highly innovative CIOs . ] Tokyo-based printer manufacturer Konica Minolta, for instance, is seeing a jump in business that its US subsidiary CIO cannot quantify now but is confident will show in future earnings. In fact, the 150-year-old OEM used the business slowdown to develop its digital transformation strategy to reinvent itself internally and grow the internal value of the company, as well as the external value it provides its customers, says Mike Lee, senior vice president and CIO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA. The blueprint of that transformation, which is based on Google Cloud Platform […]

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