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Canon — Investor Day (March 2023)
14 slides from Canon's investor day presentation, Mar 6, 2023
Slide 1: 2023 Corporate Strategy Conference: Printing Group
Canon Inc. 2023 Corporate Strategy Conference Printing Group March 6, 2023 Toshio Homma Executive Vice President & CTO Head of Printing Group
Slide 2: Printing Group basic policy under Phase VI
The basic policy of the Printing Group under Phase VI is to promote new growth strategies that leverage the effects of group integration. As for the synergies resulting from group integration, the first refers to synergies in all areas of the development, production and sales of inkjet and electro-p
Slide 3: Expanding target business areas and developing optimal products
The first key strategy, which is “expanding target business areas and developing optimal products,” deals with re-segmenting and identifying key markets. The grouping of printing divisions has changed the way we view the market. The market that we could not capture through individualized groups of h
Slide 4: Expanding product development capabilities through group synergy
This is about expanding our product development capabilities through synergy of group collaboration for key markets. This chart shows the points and areas of the two synergy effects resulting from group integration. As for the home segment, we expand our ability to respond to business use, integrati
Slide 5: Strengthening product development through manufacturing innovation
The second key measure is “strengthening product development capability through manufacturing innovation.” The pillars of new product lineup expansion are “Group integration development,” and “manufacturing innovation.” We are taking a two-pronged step of manufacturing innovation and product platfor
Slide 6: Expanding platforms supporting Product Platform Innovation
Next, expanding the development of platforms that support “Product Platform Innovation.” The idea of platform development starts with classifying products into multiple classes and standardizing the frame for each class. In this way, production lines and facilities are made common, and production pr
Slide 7: Platform-enabled product plans in Phase VI
Next, the platform-enabled product plans being rolled out in Phase VI. Currently, the Printing Group organizes its products, which range from professional-use to mass-market models, into classes according to their special characteristics, and is promoting the development of platforms by class. Offic
Slide 8: Product Platform Innovation 2
In “Product Platform Innovation 2,” the rollout of new product lineups in Phase VI, further evolution of platforms is also underway with the goal of realizing the development of optimal products by introducing newly developed new elemental technologies into platforms. 8
Slide 9: Unit sales market share as progress indicator
Next, using unit sales market share as an indicator to gauge the progress made in key measures. Two years have passed since the start of Phase VI. Despite this, and partly thanks to measures taken prior to the commencement of Phase VI, results are already showing in our 2022 market share. For exampl
Slide 10: Strengthening digital service products
Next, key measure number 3, “strengthening digital service products. Until now, Canon’s printing business had been unable to formulate a clear strategy for the development of digital service products. So far, digital services, or solution-oriented products, have been developed mainly by sales compan
Slide 11: Global expansion of cloud-based digital service products
However, as the focus of solution products has entered the cloud-based era, we have come to realize that global product development is fully possible. The key points of this key measure are twofold. The first is the global expansion of digital service products originating in each country. To this en
Slide 12: Cyber-physical system products linking services with hardware
The second fold is digital service products that link services with hardware products, which we call cyber-physical system products in conjunction with hardware. In terms of the development of specific digital service products, we will enhance products for home, office, and production. 12
Slide 13: Promoting environmentally friendly manufacturing
Next, the fourth priority measure, "promoting environmentally friendly manufacturing." The first measure is to “build a risk-responsive production system.” In terms of risk response, we have been building a flexible production system that relies on standard production methods and is less dependent o
Slide 14: GX-responsive manufacturing and product specifications
Specifically, requirements for product specifications have moved beyond what is traditionally referred to as "product-only specifications." This means responding to the growing demand for product specifications for conformity to certain global standards, so to speak, including the environment in whi