Cara O'Sullivan

A global company in the document processing business, Xerox Corporation offers a wide array of products and consulting services including publishing systems, copiers, printers, scanners, fax machines and document management software along with related products and services. Xerox started the office copying revolution with the introduction of its 914 copier in 1959. Today Xerox stands poised for the continued expansion of the global document processing market, already enormous at $200 billion a year and growing 10% a year. Including Fuji Xerox, whose results are not consolidated in accounting statements, Xerox worldwide revenues in 1996 were $25 billion, two thirds of which were generated outside the U.S. In June 1996 Karen Mihara, development manager, and Jim Johnson, chief technologist at Xerox Corporation, faced a challenge. Their task: to migrate the Xerox PeopleN... (more)