OKI Collaborates with 27pilots to Promptly Provide Solutions to Social Issues Using Venture Client Model
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Engaged in global open innovation initiatives since
Traditional models of working with startups—investment and acceleration—have faced various challenges, including the low rate of success of such collaborations with startups. VCM addresses these issues by allowing a company to become a customer of the startup, and to be directly involved in strategic problem-solving, in order to gain strategic benefits. Directly purchasing and evaluating the products of startups minimizes the risks and costs associated with intellectual property negotiations, which are often obstacles in such endeavors, and accelerates decision-making. VCM uses standardized processes to eliminate factors that typically hinder joint efforts with startups, enabling rapid processing of large-volume transactions.
Adopting VCM to implement a range of leading technologies strategically, directly, and rapidly will allow OKI to quickly test, effectively evaluate, and integrate leading global technologies into its operations. This makes it possible for OKI to conduct open innovation activities efficiently, and rapidly and reliably obtain broad-based strategic benefits from limited resources.
In its Technology Strategy announced in
OKI plans to provide stage programs, seminars, and exhibitions related to VCM at OKI WORLD 2024, scheduled for
VCM implementing organization
- VCM operational functions will be based at the Technology Division, which forms a horizontal technical division spanning across OKI.
- Based on the strategies and technical challenges identified by the business divisions, this function will then determine which technical challenges need to be resolved through external collaboration, and thereafter draw up lists of startups capable of resolving them.
- In collaboration with business divisions, it will promptly advance the evaluation and procurement of startup products, the development of peripheral technologies and systems, and on-site verifications based on usage cases, with the goal of achieving business outcomes using startup technologies at an early stage.
- The goal of these activities is to achieve rapid growth by actively incorporating global technological innovations into the Edge Platform concept outlined in its Technology Strategy.
What is VCM?
The venture client model is a method that involves becoming a customer of leading global startups and systematically using their technologies and services for various strategic benefits, including revenue enhancement and cost reduction. It was launched as a reproducible model by
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OKI Press Release, “OKI Signs Partnership Agreement with US-based Plug and Play” |
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An organization that leads and supports the entire process of becoming a startup customer and attaining strategic benefits. |
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Technology concept of establishing a solutions base to accelerate the integration of various components and data from real-world environments in order to promptly provide solutions to diverse customer challenges. |
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Reference URL: https://www.oki.com/global/ir/accounts/2023b3/1116_3.pdf |
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Technology Planning & Management Division, Technology Division
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