Lean Digitalization | Kanban | Lean Technology CASE STUDY – Reference from Planet Lean: How a manufacturing firm used digitalization to overcome the limits of manual kanban while preserving its pull-based lean culture. From Push Planning to Pull Flow Many organizations begin with a traditional […]

For decades, lean was considered a manufacturing playbook. It belonged to assembly lines, production floors, and factories. Banks, insurers, and asset managers often dismissed it as irrelevant to their world of transactions, credit approvals, and investment strategies. But those perceptions are changing. Financial services firms […]

For more than three decades, lean manufacturing has been the backbone of industrial growth across South and Southeast Asia. It has been the philosophy behind India’s rise as a global pharmaceutical hub, Vietnam’s ascent in electronics, Thailand’s dominance in automotive supply chains, and Bangladesh’s leadership […]

When you walk through a modern factory floor, it’s easy to get impressed by the speed of machines, the rhythm of assembly lines, and the sheer volume of output. However, behind all that movement, there is something far more important that keeps everything together: quality. […]

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 […]

Special Editorial In the endless pursuit of faster, leaner, and more profitable manufacturing, there’s one practice that continues to quietly power some of the world’s most efficient factories. It doesn’t rely on cutting-edge AI, complex robotics, or flashy dashboards. Instead, it rests on something far […]