One Evolving Architecture.
Published by Taylor & Francis - Routledge - CRC Press.
Each book is a complete layer of the Strategic Kaizen paradigm — from the first mathematical formulation of Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment, through the financial and operational architectures of Speed-Based Target Profit, to Beyond Strategic Kaizen as the definitive unified statement. Read any one and you understand the discipline. Read all five and you understand the mind that built it.
Performing Synchronous Profitable Operations
The book that unifies the architecture. Beyond Strategic Kaizen presents the complete Strategic Kaizen methodology for performing Synchronous Profitable Operations — from the philosophical foundation of takt profit and KAIZENshiro, through three stages and seven processes, to the principles that sustain competitive advantage permanently. The first book to simultaneously address manufacturing flow synchronisation at takt time and at takt profit — as a unified, financially governed system.
Every concept in the five-volume series converges here. KAIZENshiro as the annual profit contract. Takt profit as the financial clock. The 7 principles as the governing logic of every improvement decision. SPO as the ideal state that directs the architecture. If a CEO reads only one book in this series, this is the one.
Planning and Developing Synchronous Profitable Operations
If Beyond Strategic Kaizen defines the ideal state, Speed-Based Target Profit defines how to reach it through planning. SBTP is the production planning and control system that makes takt profit operationally actionable — translating the financial clock into daily planning decisions, shift targets, and module-level governance.
The book establishes how to convert annual target profit into the speed-based rate (profit per minute) that governs every strategic improvement decision. SBTP connects the financial architecture of KAIZENshiro with the operational architecture of the production floor — closing the gap between what the shareholder requires and what the production system produces, in every minute of the fiscal year.
Profitability Scenarios
The volume that established the mathematical models. MCPD: Profitability Scenarios presents the complete CLW/CCLW quantification framework, the KAIZENshiro budget architecture, and the financial reconciliation models that govern Strategic Kaizen in both the sales increase and sales decrease scenario.
The book includes the two complete case studies that define the Proof of Impact portfolio: AA-Plant (Automotive, $7.5M KAIZENshiro) and AS-Company (Food Industry, $5.15M KAIZENshiro). Every formula verified. Every result validated. The book that makes the financial architecture of Strategic Kaizen irrefutable.
Uncovering Hidden Reserves of Profitability
Every organisation carries hidden reserves of profitability. They are not visible in the income statement. They are not captured by standard costing. They exist in the gap between current performance and ideal takt profit — in the cost of losses and waste that has never been systematically quantified or systematically eliminated.
MCPD Transformation presents the strategic framework for discovering and unlocking those reserves through Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment — the governing system that converts loss structures into improvement targets, and improvement targets into competitive advantage. The profitability that was always there, waiting for the right architecture to claim it.
The Path to Competitiveness
The first book. The global launch. Presented in the plenary session of the 18th World Productivity Congress in Manama, Bahrain — this was the moment Strategic Kaizen entered the international scientific and executive arena. Co-authored with Dr. Shigeyasu Sakamoto, one of Japan’s most respected authorities in industrial engineering and productivity science.
The book integrates Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment with Methods Design Concept — establishing the foundational path from CLW quantification to methods improvement to competitive cost architecture. MCPD governs the financial destination. MDC governs the method to reach it. Together, they define the path to competitiveness for any manufacturing organisation willing to govern profit architecturally rather than reactively.
Alin Posteucă is a consultant in productivity and profitability whose principal focus is the field of Takt Profit. When researching the interactions between operating target time and inventory structures at the manufacturing flow level, he identified detailed typologies of losses and waste for each cost structure and discovered the modelling necessary to simultaneously achieve the operational and financial target performance expected by manufacturing companies.
He showed how to convert the target profit into Takt Profit, facilitating planning and optimising production to continuously achieve the target profit, regardless of sales trend. PhD in Industrial Engineering (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 2015). PhD in Managerial and Cost Accounting (Bucharest University of Economic Studies). PhD Research Fellow at Linköping University, Sweden.
- Laureate · “Traian Vuia” Prize · Romanian Academy · Operational Excellence · Dec 2020
- 2 PhDs · Industrial Engineering · Managerial & Cost Accounting
- 20+ years management consulting · 150+ Strategic Kaizen Projects · 7 industries
- Certified Public Accountant · MBA · Industry 4.0 Research
Dr. Shigeyasu Sakamoto is one of Japan’s most respected authorities in industrial engineering and productivity science. His career spans five decades at the intersection of industrial engineering rigour and operational reality — from government-certified professional engineering to the highest international bodies of productivity science.
“SBTP is a new paradigm for profitable production planning which integrates productivity measurement and improvement directly within planning. I am convinced SBTP will have a major impact on the science of management.”
- Former Vice President · JMAC (Japan Management Association Consultants Inc.) · The oldest Management Consulting Firm in Japan · Contributed to the Formation of Lean/TPS and TPM
- Fellow · World Academy of Productivity Science
- Senior Member · Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
- Certified MTM Instructor · Certified MOST Instructor · Work Factor Instructor
- Technical Coordinator · International MTM Directorate · Professional Engineer (P.E.) certified by the Japanese Government
Five books. One evolving architecture.
Each volume is a proof —
not of what was written,
but of what was first proven in the production floor,
then formalised for every executive who governs profit architecturally.
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