Ricoh USA has been named a gold winner in the Most Innovative Company category from the Best in Biz Awards – the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America. In the past year, Ricoh launched its Ricoh Ignite Global Growth Strategy which outlines the company’s plans to push traditional technology boundaries to empower digital workplaces to facilitate more streamlined and secured information sharing, enhanced collaboration and productivity, and much more. As part of this strategy, Ricoh has demonstrated innovation and evolution on multiple fronts – from augmented reality options for communicators to re-imagined collaboration for modern offices and work styles.
Each year, Best in Biz Awards’ entrants span the spectrum, from some of the most recognizable global brands, to the most innovative local start-ups. The 8th annual program proved to be a particularly tough competition, garnering close to 700 entries from an impressive array of public and private companies of all sizes, and from a variety of geographic regions and industries in Canada and the U.S. Best in Biz Awards 2018 honours were conferred in 70 different categories, including Company of the Year, Fastest-Growing Company, Most Innovative Company, Best Place to Work, Support Department, Executive of the Year, Most Innovative Product, Best New Service, CSR Program, Marketing Campaign and Blog of the Year.
“For more than 80 years, Ricoh has continued to build on its founding legacy of innovation, developing the tools and expertise to help our customers meet the challenges of a changing world,” said Glenn Laverty, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Ricoh Americas, and President & CEO of Ricoh Canada. “Today, that can mean anything from intelligently scanning, indexing and routing an inbound envelope’s contents into a central, accessible-from-anywhere cloud-hosted repository, to quickly, accurately and securely printing and mailing a medical bill. What’s important is that information is where it’s needed, when it’s needed there, in the format in which it’s needed. Today’s work can take us many places. We make it our mission to help workers be just as effective and involved from across an ocean, as they are from across a room,” Laverty added.
Since 2011, winners in the Best in Biz Awards have been determined based on scoring from independent judging panels composed of prominent editors and reporters from some of the most respected newspapers, TV outlets, and business, consumer, technology and trade publications in North America. Structured in this unique way, the Best in Biz Awards is able to best leverage its distinguished judges’ unparalleled expertise, experience and objectivity to determine award winners from among the hundreds of entries. The 2018 judging panel included, among others, writers from the Associated Press, Barron’s, Consumer Affairs, eWeek, Forbes, Healthcare Innovation News, Inc., Investment Advisor Magazine, MediaPost, New York Post, the New York Times, Ottawa Citizen and Wired.
For a full list of gold, silver and bronze winners, please visit http://www.bestinbizawards.com/2018-winners.
Ricoh wins Best in Biz Gold Award for most innovative company
