Blog Posts for Allison Kern

Greetings to all in the new year. As we enter this first month of 2022, the pandemic is a continuing theme that has created a wide range of uncertainties, both in business and throughout global societies. Here at Konica Minolta, we remain focused on how we can continue momentum and transform key social issues in the U.S. and around the world – all while we help our customers with digital transformations to create value for people and more sustainable business processes. As a company of more than 40,000 employees globally, we’re committed to a single purpose: to benefit our customers and our society at large. (more…)

The past year has been a time of transformation across all aspects of life. It has tested our ability to multi-task and adapt, forcing many of us to completely reinvent the daily routines we’ve lived in for years. While everyone has been faced with unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruption it’s caused has provided a moment to pause, step back and look at how we live our lives. It has also given many of us the opportunity to evaluate our routines and make changes to help us be more successful, efficient and happy. (more…)

It seems like an understatement to say that 2020 has been a transformative year. The global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced society to pause and closely examine our daily activities, reevaluating the ways we live and work. (more…)

I began working in Corporate Social Responsibility, often referred to by its acronym, CSR, or the interchangeable term, Corporate Citizenship, seven years ago. While seven years may not seem like too long, in this time I’ve seen the attitudes and actions surrounding the subject transform and evolve tremendously. (more…)

Earlier this month my team organized an employee volunteer event in collaboration with the non-profit organization, The New York/ New Jersey Trail Conference. We had a group of 25 enthusiastic and energetic Konica Minolta volunteers working to build and maintain hiking trails alongside a naturally occurring waterfall at the Ramapo Valley County Reservation in Mahwah, NJ. The team had a mission, to break and reposition rocks along the rugged forest floor in order to create safer hiking trails so members of our community are able to walk their dogs and hike while enjoying the natural beauty of northern New Jersey. (more…)