CONCEPT
Vector Pods (Ohmae Reading)
Edo Segal's name for the small, cross-functional groups whose job is to decide what should be built rather than to build it — read through Ohmae's framework as the organizational form that concentrates strategic imagination around the decisions that create value when execution has been commoditized.
Segal describes vector pods in You On AI as groups of three or four people who integrate customer understanding, market analysis, and strategic judgment into specifications that AI tools execute. They are cross-functional by design, because the decisions they make — what to build, for whom, and why — require perspectives from multiple domains that no single functional expertise can provide. Ohmae's framework reveals why the pod is the organizational form most suited to AI-age strategy: it concentrates resources on the judgment decisions that create value, rather than on the execution functions that AI now performs, and it organizes the judgment work cross-functionally because the strategic questions cannot be answered within any single domain.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The conventional organizational form is built around functional specialization. Engineering decides how to build. Marketing decides how to position. Product management mediates. Each function