Kenichi Ohmae
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Kenichi Ohmae. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Kenichi Ohmae's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The org chart stopped making sense on a Tuesday.
I was in Trivandrum, a week into the training I describe in *You On AI*, watching my engineers reach across every boundary their careers had been built within. A backend developer was building interfaces. A designer was writing features. The functional walls that had organized my company for years were dissolving in real time, and nobody had torn them down. They just stopped being load-bearing.
One of my engineers said it better than I could: "The org chart is a map of what used to be expensive."
He had never read Kenichi Ohmae. He did not know that a Japanese strategist had spent four decades making precisely this argument — that every border defining competitive reality