27 July 2025

Why the Smartest Startups Think Lean from Day One

By the Editorial Team | True North Leanwww.truenorthlean.org Most startups don’t fail because they lack vision. They fail because they chase that vision without a system for learning, alignment, and execution. We romanticize the lone founder—the genius in the garage, sketching a billion-dollar idea on […]

13 July 2025

Lean Without Borders: Lessons from Two Teams, Two Countries, One Spirit

In recent weeks, the True North Lean team had the opportunity to work with two distinctly different organizations—on paper. One was a Dutch-Thai joint venture in Bangkok, with a predominantly Burmese frontline. The other, an American multinational operating in Cambodia, where a U.S.-led leadership team […]

21 April 2025

Driving Vietnam’s Industrial Evolution: A Lean–Digital–Green Transformation for Sustainable Growth

Vietnam’s manufacturing sector is undergoing a quiet but powerful transformation. As global competition intensifies and supply chains demand greater transparency, resilience, and sustainability, Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are responding—not with fragmented solutions, but through structured, integrated transformation built on three essential pillars: Lean, […]