We held an "AI Strategy Workshop" for Konica Minolta, Inc. to accelerate AI-Ready (*) with the aim of supporting and collaborating in building an AI business.

■Background of the event

Konica Minolta, Inc. is building a business model centered around an "Image IoT Platform," which combines the imaging technology it has cultivated over many years with AI and IoT technologies. Last November, we opened the Innovation Garden OSAKA Center as a new research and development base. Cinnamon AI is working on AI projects with over 100 large companies. We offer "AI Strategy Workshops" that utilize deep insights and knowledge regarding AI business construction extracted from these development results. This time, we held a 5-day practical "AI Strategy Workshop" with the aim of developing and strengthening Konica Minolta's core human resources for AI technology.

■Overview of “AI Strategy Workshop”

In this workshop, we conducted a five-day workshop program for approximately 50 employees across eight Konica Minolta businesses.

For two days, we mainly focused on classroom lectures to deepen our understanding of AI utilization and AI project management frameworks, and on the third day, weProgram co-developed by Cinnamon AI with IDEOWe have carried out. During the final two days, participants divided into groups and held workshops to build AI strategy designs and business strategies based on designated themes, and through discussions, presentations, and feedback, they worked on formulating specific solutions to challenges. In the future, Cinnamon AI will continue to discuss with Konica Minolta the use of AI and promotion of DX in the eight businesses that took shape through this workshop, and will continue to provide support for commercialization.

*Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the event will be held online for 4 days after Day 2.

■Impressions from AI Strategy Workshop participants (excerpt)

"I learned that when using AI, I need to understand the data/business, and formulate a strategy based on the end value of AI."

``I felt that the Lean customer development model, which takes a human-centered approach and includes a verification stage with customers to constantly make course corrections and move forward while minimizing failures, can be used in actual business.''

"When it comes to using AI, small differences can make a big difference in results. I would like to understand systems that continue to win, such as Harvest Loop proposed by Cinnamon, and reflect them in our company's strategy."

■About offering “AI Strategy Workshop”

Cinnamon AI supports the promotion of DX that creates change at the industrial level. The ``AI Strategy Workshop'' held as part of this initiative has already been adopted by many companies other than Konica Minolta and has been well received. By implementing programs customized to the challenges of each company, it becomes possible to develop AI human resources and solve more specific challenges. For inquiries regarding this workshop, please contact us below.

https://cinnamon.is/#contact

*Keidanren: AI Utilization Strategy - Towards the realization of an AI-Ready society -

https://www.keidanren.or.jp/policy/2019/013.html

[Cinnamon Co., Ltd. company profile]

Company name: Cinnamon Co., Ltd.

URL:http://www.cinnamon.is

Location: 6th floor, Spirit Building, 3-19-13 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Established: October 2016

Representative: President and CEO Mirai Hirano

■Business details:

Artificial intelligence product business, artificial intelligence consulting business Cinnamon AI's mission is to "create a world full of creativity, together with AI," and we are working on developing advanced business AI solutions, and have a track record of providing them to many major domestic companies. I am. In addition, we have established artificial intelligence laboratories in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and Taiwan, and have succeeded in recruiting a large number of AI engineers. Recently, in addition to the AIOCR "FlaxScanner," we have begun commercializing the specialized speech recognition technology "RossaVoice," and have begun selling it mainly to major companies. In addition, Cinnamon AI has many advanced AI algorithms based on three unique research areas: “Digitize,” “Structure,” and “Understand.” We are continuously developing business AI solutions that utilize unstructured data.