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Here's My Thinking. Konica Minolta Latest Press Release! Another example of what I see as complete insanity! Causing more concern for the future of Konica Minolta. Global Paper Solutions! Will they soon have marketing campaigns saying, "BuyOur IT Services And Get Free Paper"
What are the issue with the POOR Operating Margins at Ricoh? How can anyone take Rich serious regarding being a services company when Ricoh doesn’t share the operating profit margins of the office services business unit on their own? Ricoh produced three billion dollars in revenues from their digital services business group. Of which $1.4 + Billion was offices services and $1.4 + billion office products. The business units combined operating profit margin was 0.23% NOT EVEN A QUARTER PERCENT!!! I dig into the numbers and suggest Canon USA watch today's episode. As Canon is now attempting to deliver IT Services In Americas! Canon Learn From RICOH.
OK, I Give Them A Cookie For Profit Hit. But I still have Zero Confidence In Konica Minolta maintaining any continuation of qtrly profitability! Their past six years have shown that the Konica Minolta leadership is ineffective at projecting profit numbers and I don't see any substance coming from leadership which instills confidence!
Now that Lexmark joins IT Savvy under the ownership of Xerox How will the numbers change? How will these two organizations help define the Xerox reinvention?
Kyocera's groundbreaking innovative Inkjet technology is reshaping production print space. This alignment with Xerox is a strategic home run! Lots of changes and realignments coming my friends!