Annual Report 2024 2025
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Our Initiatives, Communities
and Key Insights
The centres convene diverse groups to share knowledge, accelerate
action and spark innovation and ideas to tackle the world’s most pressing
challenges. The following list describes the multistakeholder initiatives and
communities that are currently operating to effect change.
Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains
Name Description
Chief Operating, Supply
Chain and Procurement
Officers CommunityA network of over 90 C-suite executives across 15 industries, working to
anticipate and navigate complexity in global manufacturing and supply chains.
Circular Transformation
of IndustriesPromotes a sustainable and resilient industrial economy through widespread adoption
of circularity principles.
Frontline Talent
of the FutureDrives societal and economic outcomes by deploying solutions to attract, skill and retain
talent in manufacturing and supply chains.
Future-Proofing
Global Value Chains:
Country Preparedness
and BeyondExplores the latest trends affecting global value chains and identifies opportunities and best
practices to inform next-generation manufacturing strategies, value chain configurations
and industrial policies.
Global Lighthouse
NetworkRecognizes top performers in tech-enabled industrial transformation, creating
a shared learning platform across 189 facilities and value chains that use digital
technologies to boost productivity, resilience, sustainability, talent and customer focus.
Global Network
of Advanced
Manufacturing HubsConnects regional manufacturing ecosystems to share insights, scale innovation
and promote global collaboration, ensuring locally tailored responses to global
industry shifts and emerging technologies.
Industry Net Zero
AcceleratorSupports industries to accelerate their decarbonization journey to achieve net-zero
emissions by or before 2050 by addressing the “how-to” questions of operationalizing
decarbonization commitments across the value chain.
Lighthouse
Operating SystemAims to develop a responsible operating model for industry, co-designed by leaders
and rooted in lean, digital and sustainable principles.
New Generation
of Industry LeadersConnects emerging leaders to build and accelerate responsible industry transformation
while inspiring the next generation with the future frontiers of industry.
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