Strategic Kaizen Manager

with Dr. Alin Posteucă

Step beyond incremental improvement and embrace the discipline of Strategic Kaizen Transformation (SKT). Guided by Dr. Alin Posteucă – the architect of Strategic KAIZEN, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets, Synchronous Profitable Operations, etc – this programme empowers senior leaders to synchronise cost strategy with operations, achieving profitability without capital investment.

By mastering SKT, executives lead their organisations into the ideal state of synchronous, profitable performance, where operational excellence and financial resilience converge.

In today’s hyper-competitive markets, leaders cannot rely on incremental improvement or isolated efficiency gains. They need a system capable of reducing structural costs, protecting margins, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery – all without additional capital investment.

Strategic Kaizen Transformation (SKT) provides exactly that: a disciplined, profit-centred methodology that synchronises operations with strategy and delivers sustained competitive advantage.

Equipment and people productivity, product quality and on-time profitable deliveries are too important to your business success not to make an effort for an SKT program and to have an effective SKT Manager to carry out the strategic and operational guidance of improvements to continuously hit TAKT PROFIT target.

SKT replaces traditional, reactive improvement with a proactive, strategic approach that enables organisations to:

• Reduce KAIZENshiro Costing from 40% to 10%
• Achieve 6% cost reduction every year for five consecutive years
• Consistently meet Takt Profit and ROI expectations
• Expand capacity without capital expenditure

This is the performance level demanded by top-tier competitors.

Tangible Results

• 45% increase in productivity
• Equipment efficiency rising from 50–70% to 80–90%
• ~80% reduction in unplanned downtime
• Up to 50% fewer quality defects
• ~65% scrap reduction
• 30% reduction in material and utilities consumption
• 35% shorter lead times

Intangible Results – Strategic, Cultural and Leadership Gains

• Stronger executive team alignment
• Sharper strategic and operational decision-making
• Motivated improvement teams, aligned with corporate objectives
• Increased cross-functional collaboration
• A shift towards proactive, preventive behaviour
• Higher employee engagement and job satisfaction

The Strategic Kaizen Manager Certification prepares leaders to design, deploy and sustain SKT across their organisation.

Through a four-week, non-consecutive learning journey, participants integrate:

• executive-level learning modules
• simulations and case work
• structured group discussions
• real-world applications inside their own company

Between each session, participants implement SKT methods and deliver measurable results.

To support an SKT initiative, the program is divided into four 1-week sessions for: planning, development, implementation and support.
These week-long sessions run for approximately 4 months.

During the three intervening weeks between each session week with Dr. Alin Posteucă, participants apply the learning at work and present the results at the next session.

Week 1 – SKT Foundations & Master Planning

Understand the SKT logic, measure total non-productivity costs, and design the SKT Master Plan.

Week 2 – Building the SKT System & KAIZENshiro Culture

Establish the leadership behaviours, tools and cultural conditions required for sustainable SKT.

Week 3 – Strategic Kaizen Implementation

Transition from reactive to preventive Kaizen and execute Strategic Kaizen projects aligned with Takt Profit and the KAIZENshiro Budget.

Week 4 – Sustaining SKT & Extending Impact

Learn how to sustain the SKT system, conduct SKT audits, deploy White-Collar Kaizen and connect SKT to innovation in processes, products and materials.

Graduates will be equipped to:

• Build and adapt an SKT deployment strategy
• Use total non-productivity costs to drive tactical decisions
• Plan and execute Strategic Kaizen projects
• Lead Strategic Kaizen events with managerial discipline
• Conduct SKT audits
• Analyse losses, waste and their causal cost drivers
• Manage KAIZENshiro Costing and KAIZENshiro Budgets
• Link budgeting cycles with operational cost-improvement strategy

Ensure continuous alignment with strategic objectives

This programme is designed for:

• C-suite leaders (CEO, CFO, COO, CIO etc.)
• Senior and departmental managers
• Improvement practitioners
• Cost and budget professionals

Participants must be affiliated with an organisation committed to operational excellence and process improvement.

Certification is granted based on full attendance, exam completion and demonstrated implementation results.

The programme is taught by Dr. Alin Posteucă, creator of Strategic Kaizen, MCPD, SBTP, SPO, Takt Profit and KAIZENshiro Budget concepts, published internationally by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, CRC Press and Productivity Press. Dr Posteucă is a laureate of the Traian Vuia Award of the Romanian Academy for scientific contributions to operational excellence.