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Ricoh and Rise Consulting Group have gotten together, in a sort of joint venture arrangement, to set up Ricoh AI Consulting Co., Ltd. the idea is to help enterprises get past the ‘try it once’ AI phase and really move into full scale deployment. It’s scheduled to start operations in July, and the new company will basically cover the whole path for AI transformation, from strategy through implementation, operational rollout and then continuous improvement, all together.
This partnership is landing at a moment where a lot of organizations can’t quite pin down useful AI use cases or they stall once the work reaches the proof-of-concept step. And since enterprise AI adoption is shifting away from just chatbot style conversations and toward AI that sits inside everyday business processes, the venture is trying to close that gap with an execution driven mindset, not just pilots.
Ricoh will bring its AI capabilities, its broader enterprise customer reach, and its know-how for putting AI to work with messy unstructured business data via the Hi.DEEN platform. Rise Consulting will contribute its AI and digital consulting know how too, including business process redesign, KPI planning, and hands-on implementation support.
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Going forward, the joint venture will go in tandem with organizations to catch operational bottlenecks, sketch out AI roadmaps, ship production ready systems, and continue that longer term adoption work across teams without slowing down. Ricoh is set to grab an 80 percent stake in the company while Rise Consulting keeps the remaining 20 percent, and the whole thing is planned to be headquartered in Tokyo. Yoshiaki Umezu will serve as president, and there’s also this aim to produce repeatable AI deployment models that can be reused across a range of industries, more or less, depending on the situation.
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