Ricoh Americas Pitches 'Unstructured knowledge' for 2013

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    <p><font size=”5″><strong>Ricoh Americas Pitches ‘Unstructured knowledge’ for 2013</strong></font></p>
    <p><font size=”5″><strong> <font size=”4″>Ricoh Americas: ‘Unstructured knowledge’ is the challenge of our time</font></strong></font><br />
    <font size=”4″>Leveraging goldmine of untethered, unorganized information will drive organizations’ success in 2013 and beyond, company predict</font></p>
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    <p>By <a href=”http://www.sacbee.com/search_results/?sf_pubsys_story_byline=Ricoh%20Americas%20Corporation&link_location=top&#8221; title=”Read more articles by Ricoh Americas Corporation”><span>Ricoh Americas Corporation</span></a></p>
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    <p><font size=”4″><span class=”dateline”>MALVERN, Pa.</span>- Despite the power of increasingly advanced databases, the overwhelming majority of valuable business information remains adrift in the form of <em>unstructured knowledge</em> – any information that is not captured or easily searchable<em>.</em></font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″>Celebrating its <a href=”http://www.ricoh-usa.com/about/ricoh_50_anniversary/&#8221; target=”_blank”>50<sup>th</sup> anniversary in America</a>, <a href=”http://www.ricoh-usa.com/&#8221; target=”_blank”>Ricoh Americas Corporation</a> today predicts this untapped asset – unstructured knowledge – will be a key factor in the next five years and beyond. Unstructured knowledge consists largely of conversations, communications, unsearchable documents, processes, practices, strategies and cultural norms. Organizations are generally unable to harness these assets today, says Ricoh.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″>Those organizations with the ability to capture and provide structure to this knowledge will wield a huge advantage in the future. The challenge of seizing unstructured knowledge, already complex, will be further complicated by stark generational differences in work style and by the majority of baby boomers retiring by 2021 – taking valuable, undocumented information with them.        </font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″>             “Capturing unstructured knowledge is especially important as baby boomers retire and Gen Y turns first to the <em>search</em> window to attack every new business problem, and to create further complexity, the velocity of change in communication technology is unprecedented,” said Terrie Campbell, Vice<strong> </strong>President, Strategic Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Organizations that don’t adequately capture unstructured knowledge will risk the chance their customers will find more nimble companies with which to do business.”</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>Ricoh believes this knowledge capture imperative will reveal itself in a compelling range of trends, technologies and practices. Among them:</strong></font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>The next big thing: Voice capture.</strong> Ever notice how the details of important business meetings and conference calls start fading from memory the moment you step out of the room? And how it’s virtually impossible to fully brief someone who didn’t attend? Over the next five years, companies will use speech-to-text technology to capture, tag and organize the things we talk about in meetings, conference calls and customer support interactions. These conversations, which are unstructured knowledge, will all become searchable business information.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4”>This use of voice capture will have legal ramifications as these recorded conversations become part of the “workflow,” virtually everything will be “on the record.” That means organizations will need legislation that permits this capture, and will need to negotiate consent from employees and partners. Expect litigation over what, if anything, remains off limits.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>Technology-enabled Collaboration. </strong>Emerging technologies in communication will mean smart phones won’t just connect. They’ll <em>create</em>. Cloud boards and unified communication systems as well as virtual workspaces will add dimension to where knowledge originates. This technology will enable that content to be captured, searched and shared.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>Security concerns mount. </strong>Gen Y has redefined “teamwork.” Today, it may include vetting ideas on social networks, and the boundaries may be even broader in the years to come. Organizations will need reliable new ways of securing enterprise information without constraining the open access that spawns solutions.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>New ways of working drive new architectures.</strong> New personal devices, mobility levels and social computing techniques will create the need for different architectures, many relying on the cloud. Security and access will be paramount – and more challenging than ever.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>Bidirectional mentorship. </strong>Gen Y will comprise over 50% of the workforce by 2020.[1] Baby boomers and Gen Y work quite differently, but each has much to teach the other. Decades of experience have given baby boomers a feel for what strategies, processes and approaches succeed or fail in business. Capturing their knowledge in searchable content that adds value to the organization is imperative. At the same time, Gen Y, however, has startling insights into the workings of social computing, which is well on its way to becoming synonymous with business. Baby boomers will mentor Gen Y, as might be expected, but smart organizations will enlist Gen Y to mentor boomers on the new ways of being effective.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″><strong>The ultimate goal: Monetizing captured knowledge.</strong> Capturing the new goldmine of unstructured knowledge will be a good move for any company – and a <em>great</em> one if you can figure out early on how to process it effectively, and distribute the right output to the right worker at the right time to profit from it.</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″>”The vast opportunity that is unstructured knowledge is a big challenge for the next few years,” said Campbell. “Successful companies will find a way to get their arms around it. Others will see their fundamental value erode. Information is our core focus at Ricoh, so we think we’ll play a major role in helping companies exceed their goals. It will be exciting to see how all this plays out because you can roadmap technology, but you can’t roadmap human behavior.”</font></p>
    <p><font size=”4″>Ricoh’s predictions are based on in-depth analyses of the major business challenges facing enterprises today, trends and emerging technology. Furthermore, Ricoh bases these predictions in part on its <a href=”http://ricoh-usa.com/about/ricoh_50_anniversary/ricoh_history.aspx&#8221; target=”_blank”>half century of innovation in America</a>, during which time it delivered:</font></p>
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    <li><font size=”4″>The first high-speed digital facsimile machine for office use (1974). </font></li>
    <li><font size=”4″>The first solar-powered SLR camera (1981). </font></li>
    <li><font size=”4″>The first mass-produced CD-rewriteable drive (1996). </font></li>
    <li><font size=”4″>The first biomass toner as a genuine manufacturer’s supply item (2009). </font></li>
    <li><font size=”4″>A 100-percent solar-powered electronic billboard, in New York’s Times Square (2010). </font></li>
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