Kenichi Ohmae

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Kenichi Ohmae (大前研一, Ōmae Kenichi^?, born February 21, 1943 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture) is one of the world's leading business and corporate strategists. He is known as "Mr. Strategy" and has developed the 3C's Model.^[1]

For a period of twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a senior partner in McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm. As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he has served companies in a wide spectrum of industries, including industrial and consumer electronics, financial institutions, telecommunications, office equipment, photographic equipment, industrial machinery, food, rubber, and chemicals.

Born in 1943 in Kitakyushu, he earned a BS from Waseda University, an MS from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and subsequently worked as a senior design engineer for Hitachi. He then joined McKinsey & Company, becoming a senior partner, developing and running the company's Japan operations for a number of years. He gained an unrivaled knowledge and sensitivity to developments in a wide range of business sectors.

Ohmae has written a number of books, including The End of the Nation State and The Borderless World.

He now lives in Tokyo with his wife and two sons.^[2]