The Lighthouse Operating System 2025

The initiative is not only designing the Lighthouse OS but also actively testing, refining and validating its framework through real-world applications in different industries and geographical areas. In 2024, it was applied to the scope of shop-floor improvement and end-to-end supply-chain diagnosis in collaboration with Koç Holding and Tata Steel – both companies with several Lighthouse sites in the GLN – yielding valuable insights that further shaped its development. Moving forward, the focus is on accelerating and scaling refinement through an increasing number of development pilots. This next phase aims to validate the system by welcoming more organizations to participate in testing it through application. The goal is to demonstrate the operating system’s value by showcasing the insights gained by organizations that applied it, the actions it enabled and the shift in the organizations’ approach to problem-solving. Rather than prescribing specific actions, the system is designed to guide people in how to think, empowering them to navigate challenges independently. On the shop floor, the Lighthouse OS can be used to inform and identify the relevant tools to focus on to implement improvements. Plant managers and team leaders can use the Lighthouse OS maturity logic to quickly identify their current level of maturity with regard to a specific capability and focus on the principles and practices that are most critical to unlocking the next level of maturity. Beko Corporate, part of Turkey’s Koç Holding and a Fortune 500 company, is a partner in this initiative. It piloted the current version of the framework on the shop floor to validate it, with the aim of improving the operational performance in its cooking-appliance production line at its facility in Bolu, Türkiye. Clearly defined targets for cost reduction and top-level support were essential to the successful pilot application.4 In the first stage, the five-step maturity model was used to evaluate the Bolu production facility against the principles and elements of the Lighthouse OS framework. The assessment focused on the principles of adaptable and robust processes and connected and transparent flows, aligning with the factory’s ambition to improve conversion costs. This evaluation highlighted the current maturity level and ambition and identified high-priority Lighthouse OS practices (see Figure 12).3.1 Shop-floor improvement – with Koç Holding The Lighthouse Operating System: Driving Responsible Transformation 24