White papers
Published: 14 January 2025

Global Lighthouse Network: The Mindset Shifts Driving Impact and Scale in Digital Transformation

The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) recognizes companies that have achieved exceptional impact on productivity and sustainability, enabled by digital transformation. This white paper reports on the leading-edge lessons learned by the latest 36 Lighthouses to join the network.

The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) recognizes companies that have achieved exceptional impact on productivity and sustainability, enabled by digital transformation. This white paper reports on the leading-edge lessons learned by the latest 36 Lighthouses to join the network.

These Lighthouses are:

  • Tackling the digital “scaling slump”, through assetizing use cases as enterprise capabilities, while partnering with their frontline workforces to localize adoption.
  • Investing in their frontline workforce, focusing on productivity and stability by designing talent solutions tailored to develop each site’s local workforce.
  • Progressing towards end-to-end sustainability, building on the tech-enabled solutions pioneered by early Lighthouses with investments in value chain data and new partnership models to underpin circularity.

In six years, the GLN has expanded from 16 to 189 Lighthouses, representing factory, sustainability and end-to-end value chain categories across 30+ countries and 35 subsectors. This diversity is what powers the GLN – a network of peers that share knowledge and insights to accelerate their transformation journeys.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum reports may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

About us

Engage with us

  • Sign in
  • Partner with us
  • Become a member
  • Sign up for our press releases
  • Subscribe to our newsletters
  • Contact us

Quick links

Language editions

Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

Sitemap

© 2025 World Economic Forum