Ohmae Kenichi

Ohmae Kenichi ( Japanese 大 前 研 一 , Ōmae Ken'ichi ; * 1943 ) is a Japanese management consultant and author of more than 140 books on management and socio-political topics. He is a representative of neoliberalism .

Life

After attending school in Yokohama , he received his bachelor's degree from Waseda University in Tokyo , his master's degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a nuclear engineer . He then worked at Hitachi on an experimental fast breeder before joining McKinseyjoined as a management consultant. He stayed at McKinsey for 23 years and helped build its strategy division. He advised numerous companies as well as Asian governments. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame .

He lives in Tokyo with his wife Jeanette, has two sons and spends his free time with music, sailing, martial arts, motorcycling and diving.

Services

Ohmae Kenichi made Japanese management methods known to a broad western audience, such as the just-in-time production practiced by Toyota . He also presented the differences between Japanese and Western companies, in particular he pointed to the longer strategic planning horizon of Japanese companies compared to the short planning horizon of western companies due to shareholder value thinking. Through his numerous publications, which in the 1980s predicted or described globalization as a phenomenon of the world economy , he coined many terms that are still in use today.

criticism

Critics of capitalism see Ohmae Kenichi as a representative of neoliberalism . He stands for free and open markets in which capital should flow unhindered.

He often embeds his neoliberal stance in very pathetic metaphor constructions that would hardly contain any statements. In the opinion of the critics, his theses, which are extremely “banal” and have often been heard in connection with neoliberal economic policy, are presented by him as new , sometimes almost as “ revolutionary ” and thus unnecessarily exaggerated. He suggests specialist competence with simple economic contexts that are generally known.

Example:

Policy re -invent
the global stage calls for a new script . To do this, the most important actors have to change the way they act and think . This applies to individuals as well as institutions - whether companies , trade unions , citizens' groups , investors , regional or national governments. - What comes after globalization? (2006)

Works (selection)

• Power of the triad: the new form of global competition . Gabler, 1985, ISBN 3-409-13310-0
• Japanese strategies . McGraw-Hill, 1986, ISBN 3-89028-057-9
• The Borderless World . Harpercollins, 1990, ISBN 1-86197-584-8
• The Mind of the Strategist. The Art of Japanese Business . McGraw-Hill, 1991, ISBN 0-07-047904-6
• End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies . Free Press, 1995, ISBN 0-02-923341-0
• The Evolving Global Economy . Harvard Business School Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87584-640-8
• The new world market . Hoffmann + Campe Vlg GmbH, 1996, ISBN 3-455-11166-1
• The new logic of the world economy . Fischer, 2001, ISBN 3-596-12062-4
• The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy . Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd., 2001, ISBN 0-06-095742-5
• Traid power . Free Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7432-3634-3
• The Next Global Stage . Wharton School Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-13-147944-X
• What comes after globalization? . Econ, 2006, ISBN 3-430-17276-4

Web links

• Article about Ohmae's ideas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - last accessed in May 2006 
2. ↑ ibid.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ohmae is the family name, Kenichi the first name.