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NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – This article explores how Sodebo’s leaders use TPS to scale craftsmanship, improve flow, and strengthen consumer focus across operations.

FEATURE - Based on his 25-year leadership journey, the author discusses how ownership-based leadership fosters responsibility, resilience, and sustained organizational excellence.

FEATURE - Lean discipline strengthened maintenance quality at Vale Indonesia’s nickel smelter by developing leadership, enabling early detection, and improving furnace reliability.

FEATURE – Effective problem solving through A3 requires shared observation and dialogue, not perfect documents; when teams learn together across boundaries, improvements address root causes and endure.

FEATURE – As we bid farewell to 2025, our editor looks back to Planet Lean content from the past 12 months and offers some important reflections on Lean in a world that seems to go faster every day.

FEATURE - Using 5S thinking beyond tools, the article explores how mental clutter, assumptions, and habits create waste—and how structured problem-solving restores clarity.

INTERVIEW — In this Q&A, Michael presents his latest book—a glossary of lean terms that’s meant to challenge our long held beliefs about lean concepts, and to make it fun.

NOTES FROM THE GEMBA — This French tech firm thrives through Lean Thinking, continuous learning, and customer-focused innovation, embodying Toyota-inspired resilience in software development.