In 1985, Masaaki Imai founded Kaizen Institute – the original lean management consultancy. Today, with more than 30+ offices operating in over 40+ countries, our team of highly trained and sought after professionals work to advance the continuous improvement body of knowledge worldwide and have applied the lean methodology across virtually all business sectors. We work with our clients to create processes that highlight problems, whilst simultaneously training and empowering their teams to solve them. We research, develop, and publish various aspects of continuous improvement, while partnering with our clients and enabling them to implement sustainable improvements through our consulting, training and benchmarking activities, while guiding them on their KAIZEN™ journey. In 2004, Kaizen Institute Romania was founded, applying the "KAIZEN™ by Harmony” Model, having as purpose the development of organizations at the international benchmark level, accomplishing in this way, its mission.