Kenichi Ohmae — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Kenichi Ohmae — On AI. 20 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Attentional Ecology
The study of how AI-saturated environments shape the minds that live inside them — the framework for asking what becomes of judgment, curiosity, and the capacity for sustained attention when answers become abundant and friction is engineer…
Competitor Vertex
The third of Ohmae's three Cs — transformed in the AI age by the collapse of entry barriers, the democratization of production, and the emergence of competitors whose cost structures the incumbent framework cannot see.
Corporation Vertex
The first of Ohmae's three Cs — the corporation's capabilities, assets, and positions — transformed in the AI age by the symmetric amplification of every competitor's capacity, which reveals rather than creates strategic differentiation.
Customer Intimacy (Ohmae Reading)
The specific, granular, institutionally accumulated understanding of how particular customers operate — the strategic asset Ohmae identified as foundational to all competitive advantage, now the primary leverage point in an economy where ex…
Customer Vertex
The second of Ohmae's three Cs — transformed in the AI age by two opposing forces: the escalation of baseline expectations and the exposure of customer needs previously invisible because they were economically unfeasible to serve.
Ecosystem Lock-In
The competitive advantage that emerges when accumulated investments in data, integrations, talent, and process make switching prohibitively expensive — the durable moat that AI cannot replicate because it was built through time.
Industry Definition Trap
Ohmae's diagnosis that every industry definition is a prison calling itself a house — providing identity and structure while blinding its inhabitants to opportunities, competitors, and customer needs that exist outside its boundaries.
Insight (Klein)
Klein's empirical framework for how experts see what others miss — the three paths (connection, contradiction, creative desperation) through which new understanding arises in natural settings.
Planning Department Illusion
Ohmae's diagnosis of the systematic pathology produced by strategic planning departments — the production of thick binders full of analysis that satisfied the form of strategic thinking while missing its substance, now reproduced at unprece…
Strategic Architecture
Ohmae's framework for designing an organization's competitive position around specific leverage points — the places where focused investment produces disproportionate strategic effect — distinguished from strategic planning by its positio…
Strategic Imagination
The cognitive capacity Ohmae's framework identifies as the scarce and decisive variable of the AI age — the ability to see the competitive system whole, identify what is worth building, and direct amplified capability toward genuine value c…
Strategic Repositioning
Ohmae's prescription for corporate response to a cost-structure change: identify which assets transcend the change, divest those that depend on it, and rebuild strategic architecture around the durable assets — the only coherent alternative…
The Creative Leap
Ohmae's term for the cognitive operation that distinguishes genuine strategic thinking from sophisticated analysis — the moment when the strategist, having absorbed the data, perceives an opening that no amount of sequential reasoning would…
The Dissolution of the Last Border
The collapse of the border between imagination and implementation — the final and most consequential of Ohmae's border dissolutions, structurally unprecedented because it separates thinking from doing.
The SaaS Business Model
The subscription software model that dominated enterprise technology for two decades — built on the assumption that software is expensive to write, and now being repriced by an AI revolution that has cracked that assumption.
The Solo Builder
The single individual who, working with AI, produces what previously required a team — the operational realization of Brooks's Law's theoretical optimum, and the figure whose structural advantages and structural vulnerabilities this book ex…
Software Death Cross
The early 2026 repricing event in which a trillion dollars of market value vanished from SaaS companies — the critical-stage moment when AI's displacement of software's code value became visible to markets.
The Trivandrum Training
The February 2026 week-long training session in which Edo Segal flew to Trivandrum, India, to work alongside twenty of his engineers as they adopted Claude Code — producing the twenty-fold productivity multiplier documented in The Orange Pill…