Knowledge Work Begins Providing 'Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record' to Approximately 6,000 Employees of Ricoh Japan
Knowledge Work announced that Ricoh Japan has introduced its 'Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record' to approximately 6,000 employees to automate negotiation transcriptions and CRM inputs.
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Knowledge Work Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Koji Asano), whose mission is "LIFE WITH ENABLEMENT: Delivering days full of the joy of being able to do things," announces that Ricoh Japan Corp. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director, President and CEO: Toru Kasai) has introduced "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record," a product that records and analyzes business negotiations using AI.
By introducing "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record," the creation of meeting minutes and CRM/SFA input for business negotiations will be automated. In addition, AI acts as a substitute for recording, filming, and transcribing business negotiations, allowing sales representatives to focus on the negotiations themselves. In this way, recording and analyzing business negotiations by AI supports significant operational efficiency.
## ◼️ Background of Service Introduction: From Ricoh Japan
Ricoh Japan has decided to introduce Knowledge Work's "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record" in order to understand customer dialogues more deeply and lead to improvements in proposal quality.
Among more than 150,000 sales activities every month, the contents of business negotiations are automatically transcribed and summarized, accumulating as fact-based data. By utilizing these in AI analysis, they can accurately capture customer remarks and underlying issues, realizing more convincing proposals.
## ◼️ Comment on the Introduction
Mr. Tsutomu Wakinaga, Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, Ricoh Japan Corp.
At Ricoh Japan, we are currently promoting "process reform" in sales and working to improve "negotiation quality" and "proposal speed." In order to accurately grasp customers' management issues and provide optimal value proposals, we believe it is important to capture the processes and contents of business negotiations as data and continuously utilize them. Through this initiative, we will further advance the knowledge gained from our own sales activities and improve the quality of solution proposals to our customers. In the future, we would like to utilize the accumulated negotiation data as our important asset and lead it to provide new value through DX with AI.
## ◼️ Overview of "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record"
Automatic transcription of AI business negotiations
All business negotiations, both offline (in-person visits) and online (web conferences/IP phones), can be automatically transcribed by AI.
Automatic creation of negotiation reports
In addition to summarizing the negotiation, the AI automatically creates presentations of next actions after the negotiation, feedback on the negotiation, etc.
Automatic input to CRM/SFA
The content of the negotiation can be automatically input into Salesforce.
◼️ Sales AI Product Series "Knowle
By introducing "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record," the creation of meeting minutes and CRM/SFA input for business negotiations will be automated. In addition, AI acts as a substitute for recording, filming, and transcribing business negotiations, allowing sales representatives to focus on the negotiations themselves. In this way, recording and analyzing business negotiations by AI supports significant operational efficiency.
## ◼️ Background of Service Introduction: From Ricoh Japan
Ricoh Japan has decided to introduce Knowledge Work's "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record" in order to understand customer dialogues more deeply and lead to improvements in proposal quality.
Among more than 150,000 sales activities every month, the contents of business negotiations are automatically transcribed and summarized, accumulating as fact-based data. By utilizing these in AI analysis, they can accurately capture customer remarks and underlying issues, realizing more convincing proposals.
## ◼️ Comment on the Introduction
Mr. Tsutomu Wakinaga, Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, Ricoh Japan Corp.
At Ricoh Japan, we are currently promoting "process reform" in sales and working to improve "negotiation quality" and "proposal speed." In order to accurately grasp customers' management issues and provide optimal value proposals, we believe it is important to capture the processes and contents of business negotiations as data and continuously utilize them. Through this initiative, we will further advance the knowledge gained from our own sales activities and improve the quality of solution proposals to our customers. In the future, we would like to utilize the accumulated negotiation data as our important asset and lead it to provide new value through DX with AI.
## ◼️ Overview of "Knowledge Work AI Business Negotiation Record"
Automatic transcription of AI business negotiations
All business negotiations, both offline (in-person visits) and online (web conferences/IP phones), can be automatically transcribed by AI.
Automatic creation of negotiation reports
In addition to summarizing the negotiation, the AI automatically creates presentations of next actions after the negotiation, feedback on the negotiation, etc.
Automatic input to CRM/SFA
The content of the negotiation can be automatically input into Salesforce.
◼️ Sales AI Product Series "Knowle