The current leadership team became concerned that the management philosophy of Kōnosuke Matsushita, who died in 1989, is being eroded and used AI to solve the problem
They have created a digital replica of the great man to find solutions to management problems by imitating what he may have thought or felt about a given situation. The project’s machine learning model was trained using 3,000 recordings featuring Matsushita, plus his writings, lectures, and interviews.
“We believe it is important for our employees to correctly understand the management philosophy of our founder, Kōnosuke Matsushita, on which our Basic Management Policy is based, and to pass it on through the ages.
The development of generative AI technology provides a new approach to the verification of traditional research questions, and we hope that it will enable us to take on previously impossible interdisciplinary research using innovative methods.”
Kōnosuke Matsushita is revered in Japan as the “god of management”, for his leadership philosophy and for steering Panasonic into a dominant role in the global electronics market. His books The Path and Not for Bread Alone are required reading for aspiring business managers in the country..
This is not Panasonic’s only foray into artificial intelligence this year. Its generative AI model ContextFlow++ is focused on image classification, predictive maintenance and unsupervised anomaly detection.
Source: The Register