Beyond Strategic Kaizen (ePub)

Alin Posteuca, Ph.D., is a consultant in productivity and profitability and the CEO of Exegens® (Romania). Prior to this position, he held top management positions in manufacturing and services companies. His major research and practice areas include manufacturing policy deployment, profitable production planning, strategic kaizen, and kaikaku. His recent research and practice include the impact of Industry 4.0 on planning and developing synchronous profitable operations.

He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania) and Ph.D. in Managerial Accounting from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). He was a PhD research fellow at Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Sweden. He received his MBA from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iäi, Romania. He has a bachelor's degree in Accounting and Business Computer Science from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iäi, Romania. In addition, he is a certified public accountant in Romania and a Traian Vuia Prize Laureate of the Romanian Academy (highest scientific prize in Romania).

He has been actively involved in various industrial consulting and training projects for more than 20 years, delivering training/workshop programs in productivity, innovation, business transformation, and leadership, and has been published in various research journals and presented papers at numerous conferences regarding productivity, quality, and industrial engineering.