“Over 90% of our workforce have been upskilled and all of them have moved on to higher quality and higher skill level jobs.”
We’re joined in this episode by a select group of World Economic Forum Lighthouse factories. Leaders from Foxconn, Johnson & Johnson, Schneider Electric, Unilever, and Western Digital discuss the cultural mindset and change management needed for digital transformation. They reveal how industry, scale, and legacy constraints steer each site down a unique path of technology and rollout. Watch the full episode to hear cross-sector patterns that illuminate the Lighthouse journey from pilot plant to global benchmark.
Unpack the mindset and methods behind the world’s most advanced manufacturing sites wherever you get your podcasts:
Top 5 takeaways
- Benchmarking leads to breakthroughs. Learning from others – internally and externally – and setting bold goals can elevate innovation and fuel transformation.
- Business impact fuels digital transformation. While each roadmaps differed, every journey began with a clear business challenge – boosting productivity, enabling sustainability, or strengthening resilience.
- Empowered workers become innovators. Bringing people along on the transformation journey helps competencies grow, making the business more competitive, productive, and future-ready.
- Common frameworks drive scale. A cohesive enterprise strategy needs common metrics, data models, and shared vocabulary. This standard framework approach enables scale and evolution culturally and structurally.
- Proof creates momentum. Turn technical progress into cultural momentum so teams solve problems faster and smarter. Empower your workforce and let their engagement be a talent magnet.
This episode also connects key concepts to CESMII’s forthcoming Smart Manufacturing Playbook and explores how CESMII’s open, interoperable platform can help climb toward Lighthouse level performance.
For more details, be sure to tune into the full episode on Apple or Spotify.
Special thanks to our panelists:
- Bart Talloen – Executive Fellow at World Economic Forum
- Anthony Loy – VP Industrial Digital Transformation Consulting Schneider Electric
- Biswaranjan Sen – Global Chief Product Supply Chain Officer at Unilever
- Jackie Jung – VP of Global Operations Strategy at Western Digital
- Zongchang Liu – VP and Chief Data Officer at Foxconn
- Jeff Winter, Host and Smart Manufacturing Advisor at CESMII
