Case Study: Konica Minolta improves workplace productivity with Microsoft Workplace Analytics

Konica Minolta promotes data-based work-style reforms with Workplace Analytics

Konica Minolta, a global manufacturing company, sought to elevate its eight-year work-style reform initiative by moving beyond subjective measures. The challenge was to capture objective data on employee work patterns to accurately gauge the effectiveness of past measures and inform future organizational reforms, without placing a manual reporting burden on its staff. To achieve this, the company turned to Microsoft and its Workplace Analytics solution.

Microsoft's Workplace Analytics analyzed Office 365 usage data to provide Konica Minolta with objective insights into collaboration and work patterns. The solution enabled data-driven projects, such as zoning the head office to improve focus, which resulted in a measured drop in emails from 2.8 to 0.4 per hour for some employees in focus zones. Microsoft's tool also helped the HR department analyze behavioral traits, revealing hidden inefficiencies and paving the way for revolutionary personnel handling and more effective policy-making.

Konica Minolta

Akihiro Ueda

Assistant Manager, IoT Business Development Group, Business Development Division, Digital Workplace Business Unit