Global Lighthouse Network: Rewiring Operations for Resilience and Impact at Scale

The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) has grown to 223 sites across 30+ countries and 40 industries, focusing on operational performance and sustainability. In 2025, the network added customer centricity and talent as award categories to its existing pillars of productivity, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. Key themes include using AI to build cognitive networks and the role of AI for structural integrity in accelerating industrial green energy use.

• The Global Lighthouse Network has grown over eight years to include 223 sites spanning more than 30 countries and 40 different industries, positioning itself as a community for scalable operational performance transformation.
• As of 2025, the GLN has expanded its recognition framework to include customer centricity and talent, which complement its original focus areas of sustainability, supply chain resilience, and productivity.
• The network identifies three core themes for Lighthouses: the transition from pilots to enterprise-wide systems, the use of AI to create cognitive networks, and maintaining operational resilience during disruption. Specifically, AI applied to structural integrity is noted for improving safety and efficiency while accelerating the use of industrial green energy.

APA

World Economic Forum (2026). Global Lighthouse Network: Rewiring Operations for Resilience and Impact at Scale. https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-lighthouse-network-rewiring-operations-for-resilience-and-impact-at-scale/

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Global Lighthouse Network: Rewiring Operations for Resilience and Impact at Scale. 2026. https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-lighthouse-network-rewiring-operations-for-resilience-and-impact-at-scale/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2026global, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Global Lighthouse Network: Rewiring Operations for Resilience and Impact at Scale}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2026}, month = jan, url = {https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-lighthouse-network-rewiring-operations-for-resilience-and-impact-at-scale/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }