Global Lighthouse Network 2025

Lighthouses also build up leadership capabilities alongside technical capabilities, with 61% of them ranking transformation offices (TOs) as one of their top two enablers for transformation.10 Cross-network leadership then shares lessons and accelerates scale-up. Lighthouses invest in people capabilities as both an input and an outcome of their performance transformations. Coca-Cola in Singapore participated in monthly global “show & tells” with leadership across 18 sites, enrolled site leads in over 5,000 hours of training at Coca-Cola’s global digital academy and welcomed subject matter experts from seven regional sites on short-term exchanges to facilitate knowledge sharing.11 3. Sustainability Tech-enabled digital transformation is advancing sustainability ambitions and providing the platform for more holistic circularity and decarbonization innovations with real business benefits. These benefits include enhanced supply chain resilience, with a 25-50% reduction in inventory and 15-30% improvements to on-time delivery, as well as resource efficiency, with an average reduction of 30% in material waste and 25% in energy and water consumption – often in response to concerns for local resource availability and cost.12 Lighthouses are also improving value chain sustainability with circular business models, material science and product or packaging design. Midea in China optimized product designs for simplified structures and reduced or alternative materials with AI-enabled carbon lifecycle analysis and simulation models, reducing scope 3 emissions by 28%. Foxconn Industrial Internet in China overcame metallurgical challenges to closed-loop recycling of aluminium tailings with suppliers, replacing virgin input by 75%. Ferrovial in the United Kingdom created a closed loop for excavated construction waste, diverting nearly 100% from landfill by using it to fill foundations or create new aggregate at the London Heathrow Airport site.13 These pioneering sites demonstrate that it is the mindset that matters – tuning out noise to stay hyper-focused on holistic impact, designing with and for the workforce and investing in scalability and adoption. The 2024 cohorts highlight how this approach continues to be essential to Lighthouses’ success. Chapter 2 explores this in more detail. EXAMPLE EXAMPLEThe Coca-Cola Company Midea, Foxconn Industrial Internet and Ferrovial Global Lighthouse Network: The Mindset Shifts Driving Impact and Scale in Digital Transformation 10