The Supervisory Board of Konica Minolta officially appointed Joerg Hartmann, previously in the position of COO (Chief Operations Officer), as Managing Director for Germany and Austria yesterday evening. Together with Tsuyoshi Yamazato, he will lead the company in the future. With focussed sales teams, flatter hierarchies and a more intensive digital transformation, he is setting Konica Minolta up for sustainable success.
„We will once again place a clear focus on the document - both analogue and digital - and thus concentrate more strongly on our core business.“
Joerg Hartmann, Managing Director for Germany and Austria
In the office segment in particular, the digital transformation is also leading to a move towards cloud services. „This is where our traditional business and the IT Services division intertwine, as there will then be products and solutions for document management also includes infrastructure and security services goes,“ Hartmann continues.
„Service is a very important topic for us,“ says Hartmann. This not only includes Professional Services and Smart Managed Services, but also the remote management of customer systems, such as the Workplace Hub.
In the segment Professional Printing There is a strong shift from analogue printing to digital printing. For Hartmann, this is a good reason to invest here - just a few months before drupa.
Hartmann's organisational changes also involve flatter hierarchies in order to be able to adapt more quickly to changes in the market. „I am confident that, together with our employees, we will successfully reorganise the company and thus decisively strengthen our customer relationships,“ says the manager.
[infotext icon]Hartmann has been working for the company since November 2018. He has many years of experience at leading companies in the IT industry. The graduate physicist has held senior positions at Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu and the Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion, among others[/infotext].Source: Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH
