We think of “Collective Imagination” as the original thinking of many people inspired by a wealth of knowledge and experiences. It is fundamental to business success.  The essence of your company’s Collective Imagination—ideas and information—resides in structured and unstructured documents, both paper and electronic.

Documents and information drive critical business processes.  It is critical to get the right information, to the right people, at the right place, in the right time.  The effectiveness with which you manage these processes determines your ability to do just that.  Effective processes are critical to support your ability to expand and grow, innovate and outmaneuver your competition.  It also determines how much control you have over risk factors that can threaten your success.

Ricoh’s Process Imperative is an on-going initiative to promote understanding of new information processing paradigms that help enterprises leverage the collective wisdom embodied in their organizations.  To that end, we are funding research and providing resources, like those found on this site, which combine our business process expertise with that of industry visionaries, our partners and our customers.