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Cover Story
Key to this approach is
defning exactly what
is critical for frontline
service delivery. A
big part of business
operations has always
been document imaging
and workfow.
Ensuring the effcient
internal distribution of
documentation and its
storage is essential for any
organisation. But while
necessary, it cannot truly be
said to be core to service
delivery. The processes
for the smooth production
Konica Minolta launches
OPS Managed Print Services
Many companies now face enormous challenges as budgets are
cut, but pressure remains for frontline services to be maintained.
Squaring this circle requires imaginative thinking.
Processes and procedures that have remained unexamined for
decades need to be looked at afresh with radical new approaches
adopted where necessary.
and fling of documentation
are costly in both time and
resources for any company
operating effciently.
Now there is an
alternative to internal
management of these
processes that is both
effcient and cost effective.
Managed Print Services
(MPS) is the external
provision of document
imaging and workfow
services and this provides
extensive benefts. Based
on agreed and predictable
charges, management and
operation of document
imaging is provided by
a service supplier. This
provides a fully managed
document imaging solution,
requiring the minimum of
time, internal resources
and oversight from the
organisation.
Just such an MPS
solution is offered by
Konica Minolta’s global
Optimized Print Services
(OPS) programme.
A business concept
designed to manage and
rationalise organisational
print requirements locally,
centrally or globally, and
effective within any market
segment, OPS fully supports
the Konica Minolta service
philosophy.
Part of Konica Minolta’s
wider Managed Services
portfolio, encompassing
document workfow
management, BPO, ITO,
consultancy and advice,
OPS is designed to reduce
costs, drive effciencies
and increase productivity
both within the offce, and
within in-plant document
production areas. The fully
customised OPS programme
provides an effective
strategy for document
workfow management,
including processes
designed to help customers
to better monitor, measure