Kenichi Ohmae

Ohmae Kenichi (Japanese大 前 研 一, Omae Ken'ichi, born 1943 ) is a Japanese business consultant and author of more than 140 books on management and socio-political issues. He is a representative of neo-liberalism.

Life

After attending school in Yokohama, he received his bachelors degree from Waseda University in Tokyo, his master's degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a nuclear engineer. Subsequently, he worked at Hitachi on an experimental fast breeder before he joined McKinsey as a management consultant. He stayed 23 years at McKinsey and built its strategy on the field with. He has advised numerous companies and also Asian governments. 1995 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame, he was awarded.

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

Services

Kenichi Ohmae made ​​Japanese management methods to a broad Western audience known about the practice of Toyota Just- in -time production. He also outlined the differences between Japanese and Western companies, in particular, he pointed to the longer strategic planning horizon of Japanese companies compared to short by shareholder value thinking planning horizon of Western companies. Through his numerous publications that globalization predicted and described already in the 80s as a phenomenon of the global economy, he coined many terms that are still in use today.

Criticism

See critics of capitalism in Kenichi Ohmae another representative of neoliberalism. He stood for free and open markets, where capital should flow freely.

He bette his neoliberal stance often in highly pathetic metaphor constructions, which hardly would still involve statements. His critics say the most " trivial " and already often heard in the context of neo-liberal economic policies theses would be represented by him as a new, sometimes nearly as "revolutionary " and thereby unnecessarily exaggerated. So it might suggest expertise with simple economic contexts, which is common knowledge.

Example:

Invent new policy The global stage requires a new script. For this purpose, the main actors have to change their actions and ways of thinking. This applies to individuals as well as institutions - whether corporations, unions, citizens' groups, investors, regional or national governments. - What comes after globalization? (2006)

Works (selection)

  • Power of the triad: the new shape of global competition. Gabler, 1985, ISBN 3-409-13310-0
  • Japanese strategies. McGraw -Hill, 1986, ISBN 3-89028-057-9
  • The Borderless World. Harper Collins, 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 global 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
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