Word: ricoh
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Some people get revelations in the shower. Others solve puzzles in their dreams. Yousuke Yamada, a lead engineer for the Japanese office-equipment and camera maker Ricoh Co. Ltd., gets his best ideas on Tokyo commuter trains. "I cannot create an idea at my desk," he says. "I like to walk around a crowded train, where nobody disturbs...
...fair job of adapting to the changing environment: more than half its revenues now come from digital products, its color machines are wildly popular, and it is well positioned to be a leader in on-demand, custom publishing. But a slew of newly aggressive players, from Canon and Ricoh to Hewlett-Packard, have done better, steadily encroaching on its once exclusive, very lucrative turf. From 1997 to 1999, Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from the near monopoly...