July 31st 2001
The Mind of the Strategist. The art of japanese business. 1982 Kenichi Ohmae.
The Mind of the Strategist. The art of japanese business. 1982 Kenichi Ohmae. ISBN 0070475954. Classic. Ohmae was the Director of McKinsey and Co in Japan. He laid out a blueprint for business strategy that predates most of the current writing. He was a practicer not an academic with strategy, making this a useful book. This book was referenced by Porter, Christiansen and others.
His four basic points for gaining a business strategic advantage were:
Identify key factors for success, be the best at one
Identify relative superiority where the competition is not
Use aggressive initiatives to challenge assumptions.
Take advantage of strategic degrees of freedom.
Through examples he indicates where Japanese businesses succeed and fail in strategy. It is also chock a block with business process examples.
In these present times his ideas on what to do in different economic climates is very timely. Lots of copies in the library
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