Kenichi Ohmae : The Master Strategist
News | Knowledge Seeker | October 9, 2009 at 4:10 pm
“Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.’’ Kenichi Ohmae
Described as “Mr. Strategy” worldwide, Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is regularly sought out as a public speaker and management consultant. Ohmae, according to the Financial Times of London, is “Japan’s only management guru.” In 1994, The Economist selected him one of five management gurus in the world. As an author he has published over 100 books, many of which are devoted to business and socio-political analyses.
For a period of twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he has served companies in a wide spectrum of industries, including industrial and consumer electronics, financial institutions, telecommunications, office equipment, photographic equipment, industrial machinery, food, rubber, and chemicals. His special area of expertise is formulating creative strategies and developing the organizational concepts to implement them both for private and public sectors. Some of Japan’s most famous and internationally successful companies continue to seek his help in shaping their competitive strategies. Likewise, his counsel is also much in demand among Asian, European and North American-based multinational and governmental institutions. He has also played a vital role in assisting Asian Governments to develop future oriented-regional strategies.
Dr. Ohmae attended Waseda University (BS), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (MS), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in nuclear engineering). Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for Hitachi as a senior design engineer on Japan’s prototype fast breeder reactor. He received an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1995.
The Mind of the Strategist
In his landmark book, The Mind of the Strategist, Ohmae concentrated on the thought processes behind Japan’s successful strategic thinking, described what strategic thinking is and offered both a conceptual framework and practical advice on its application. The key, he proposes, is integrating the three C’s—Customer, Competitor, and Company—in a strategic triangle that can sustain competitive advantage.
Globalization
Throughout his extraordinary career, Kenichi Ohmae has explored the ways that globalization is dissolving national borders and redefining the strategic business landscape. In his groundbreaking bestseller, The Borderless World, Ohmae coined the term ‘globalization’ and described the ways in which international business was bypassing national borders. In The End of the Nation State, he argued that nation-states have become inefficient, even impossible, business units in the new global economy, to be increasingly replaced by regional economies. The Invisible Continent described how technology was creating new platforms for generating wealth that transcended borders. In The Next Global Stage, Ohmae returned to his concept of “region states,” tomorrow’s most potent economic institutions, with China exemplifying its power. In all these books, his focus has been:
* What are the forces that are dissolving national borders and building new regional economies?
* How do you leverage technology and the other new platforms for growth that are replacing the old ones based on national economies?
* How do you lead a global corporation?
* What roles should governments play when nation-states no longer matter?
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