Japan Management Association Consultants

Name

Japan Management Association Consultants

Legal name

Japan Management Association Consulting

Website

https://jmac.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Japan Management Association Consultants (JMAC) is a Tokyo-based management consulting and research firm, founded in 1980, serving major Japanese companies with sustainability management surveys and smart manufacturing guidelines through affiliated JMA ecosystem partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Governance, Operating Model & Internal Carbon Pricing Design (EUABAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Scope 1–3 GHG Inventory Strategy, Data Governance & Controls (advisory) (EUABAKAD)

Keywords

• Management consulting
• Sustainability consulting
• Smart manufacturing
• Corporate training
• Manufacturing advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Japan Management Association Consultants (JMAC) delivers management consulting and applied research services to major Japanese companies, with a focus on sustainability strategy and smart manufacturing transformation. Its flagship deliverables are the Sustainability Management Issues Survey, which identifies management challenges in implementing sustainability, and the Smart Manufacturing Development Guidelines (SMDG), a framework of twelve case studies on automation, remote site control, and knowledge sharing. JMAC operates in close collaboration with affiliated Japan Management Association entities — JMAM, JMAR, and JMAS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sustainability Management Issues Survey
• Smart Manufacturing Development Guidelines (SMDG)

Quantifiable outcome

• Previous survey findings showed proactive sustainability approaches correlate with stronger company performance

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Japan Management Association Management Center (JMAM)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2026JMAC is collaborating with JMAM on the fourth edition of the Sustainability Management Issues Survey. JMAM is one of three affiliated entities working together to build on findings from previous survey iterations.
• Japan Management Association Comprehensive Research Institute (JMAR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2026JMAC is collaborating with JMAR on the fourth edition of the Sustainability Management Issues Survey. JMAR serves as one of the affiliated research entities contributing to the survey's research methodology and analysis.
• JMA Systems (JMAS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2026JMAC is collaborating with JMAS on the fourth edition of the Sustainability Management Issues Survey. JMAS is one of three affiliated entities contributing technical and systems expertise to the survey initiative.
• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2025NEDO sponsored the 5G Dynamic Capability Development Project under which JMAC released twelve smart manufacturing case studies as part of the Smart Manufacturing Development Guidelines framework. NEDO provides funding and sponsorship for this initiative.

Broad incumbents

• Bain & Company: Global management consultancy with an active Tokyo office advising Japanese corporates on strategy, operations, and sustainability. Overlaps with JMAC's major-corporate sustainability and operational excellence advisory, but operates at a global scale.
• Roland Berger: European-origin strategy consultancy with a dedicated Japan office serving industrial and automotive clients on operations, sustainability, and digital transformation. Comparable to JMAC's industrial/smart manufacturing advisory focus, with deeper automotive sector penetration in Japan.
• Boston Consulting Group: Global strategy consultancy with a strong Tokyo office serving Japanese corporates on sustainability, manufacturing, and operational excellence. Comparable to JMAC in serving sustainability and operations leaders at major Japanese enterprises, but with deeper partner bench and global case libraries.
• Accenture Japan: Global professional services firm with a large Japan business covering sustainability, manufacturing digitalization, and IT implementation. Comparable in serving Japanese enterprise transformation agendas, with significantly broader delivery scale and systems integration capabilities.
• Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting: Japan arm of Deloitte's global consulting practice, with deep sustainability, ESG, and operational transformation offerings. Highly comparable client base of major Japanese corporates and overlapping sustainability strategy advisory scope with JMAC's survey-led practice.
• PwC Consulting Japan: Japan consulting arm of PwC providing sustainability, ESG reporting, and operational transformation advisory to major Japanese corporates. Directly comparable to JMAC on the sustainability strategy and disclosure advisory side, with broader assurance and tax cross-sell.
• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting leader with a substantial Japan practice covering sustainability, operations, and digital transformation. Directly competes with JMAC for major Japanese corporate advisory mandates, though at a far larger scale and with global benchmarking capabilities JMAC cannot match.

Direct peers

• Japan Productivity Center: Japanese productivity and management improvement organization offering consulting, training, and benchmarking services to Japanese enterprises. Comparable to JMAC as a domestic, mission-driven management improvement body with overlapping sustainability, manufacturing, and operational excellence offerings.
• Nomura Research Institute: Leading Japanese consulting and IT solutions firm serving major Japanese corporates on management strategy, sustainability, and digital transformation. Closest domestic peer to JMAC in terms of Japanese-enterprise focus, sustainability advisory scope, and consulting-plus-systems integration positioning.
• Mitsubishi Research Institute: Japanese think-tank and consultancy providing policy research, sustainability, and management consulting to corporates and government entities. Comparable to JMAC in the research-led advisory model, government-affiliated positioning, and sustainability/industrial policy focus.

Market position

Customer concentration

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