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W H I T EP A P E R Contents Foreword Executive summary4 1. Celebrating eight years of the Global Lighthouse Network5 1.1 Continuous evolution of the Network1.2 Global expansion of the Network68 2. Operational resilience in a new world era11 2.1 Building foundations for network agility and scale2.2 Empowering people to thrive in a digital world2.3 Scaling-up impact with collaboration and purpose121926 3. Trends in technology: Lighthouses and the agentic revolution29 3.1 Mastering AI adoption: from hype to scalable assets29 3.2 Cognitive factories: staying value-backed withhuman-centric AI34 3.3 Cognitive networks: orchestrating value chains with AI39 Contributors53 Endnotes 54 Disclaimer The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) is the leading industrymovement celebrating the world’s top-performing productionand operations sites. Network members showcase provenperformance increases and achieve operational excellenceacross five categories: productivity, supply chain resilience,sustainability, customer centricity and talent. GLN is a World This document is published by the World Economic Forumas a contribution to a project, insight area or interaction.The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressedherein are a result of a collaborative process facilitatedand endorsed by the World Economic Forum but whose ©2026 World Economic Forum. All rights reserved. No partof this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in anyform or by any means, including photocopying and recording, Foreword Haldun DingeçVice President, Production& Technology, Beko Meshal AlmashariExecutive Managing Director,Late Stage Venturing Kiva AllgoodManaging Director;Head, Centre for Gunter BeitingerSenior Vice President, Jimmy GuVice President,Smart Supply Chainand Innovation,Schneider Electric Zongchang LiuRotating Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Foxconn Ruth HeussSenior Partner;Global Co-Leader, Biological evolution teaches that survival andprogress depend not on speed, size or strengthalone, but on the capacity to adapt. The sameis true of industrial operations, where evolutionis ceaseless. To survive, let alone thrive, players contending with complex, capital-intensive assets– machines, materials and production lines – thatrequire considerable effort and precision to evolve.Unlike technology firms that move at the speed That’s where Lighthouses come in. Since theinception of the Global Lighthouse Network eightyears ago, it has illuminated the path forward fortransformative operational rewiring. Lighthousesare unlocking more value from artifical intelligence(AI) than most of their peers and in ways that Such adaptation is no small feat, yet it has alwaysbeen the engine of progress. Each industrialrevolution was powered by transformativetechnology that demanded new ways of working.Adoption, often hard-won, unlocked the innovationsthat shaped each new era. But technology alone The Global Lighthouse Network remains true toits vision: to light the way forward towards a more However, even with the most engaged workforce,industrial operations remain deeply physical Executive summary This white paper celebrates eight yearsof GLN as the leading learning community The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) continuesto showcase leaders across the manufacturingand supply chain ecosystem making measurableimpacts on people, planet and performance.Having expanded from 16 factories to 224 sitesacross more than 30 countries and 40 industries, “cognitive networks”, Lighthouses are pioneeringhybrid human-AI workforces and intelligent agent Scaling-up from pilots toenterprise-wide impact Adoption alone does not guarantee impact. Thegoal is to claim the enormous advantages that comefrom scale; but this remains one of the toughestchallenges in operations. Even within GLN, onlya select few have rewired operations enterprise-wide. Those that succeed follow the same blueprintthat made their Lighthouse pilots successful:strategic roadmaps, agile operating models, talent, This report highlights three major themesfundamental to the success of all Lighthouses:operational resilience in a new era of disruption, Operational resilience in a new era of disruption This year’s Lighthouses are redefining resiliencefor a new era. Confronted by persistent volatility,from geopolitical instability to tariffs and inflation,Lighthouses have moved beyond risk mitigation toactively shaping strategy in the face of disruption.Their investments focus on three priorities:building foundations for network agility and scale,empowering people to thrive in a digital world Lighthouses are illuminating the way out of the“scaling slump” identified in earlier GLN reports,aligning their transformation approach with the 1)Centre of excellence 2)Workforce capability building 3)Technology integration Adopting AI to build cognitive networks Each combines structural, cultural andtechnological elements that drive expansion and Lighthouses are moving beyond pilots to