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COOs

Chief Operating Officers

These leaders are accountable for improving performance...

in safety, quality, sustainability, and productivity. They are members of the senior leadership team, are P&L owners,  and are responsible for a large portion of the end-to-end value chain.

COOs are responsible for hundreds of sites, thousands of front-line workers, and need to balance practical realities with strategic imperatives like sustainable operations, flexible supply chains, employee engagement, and digital disruption.

Our Research Coverage Areas

COO Research Coverage

Benchmarking Sprints
  • Operations Strategy
  • Intelligent Supply Network
  • The Future of Industrial Work
Advisory Sprints
  • Industrial Transformation Readiness

 

 

Our Research Coverage Areas

Productivity Pathfinders_#1 Top 3 by Industry-1
  • Industrial Productivity Index
  • Productivity Pathfinders
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Empowering COOs and Their Teams to Improve Safety, Quality, Sustainability, and Productivity

 

Productivity Pathfinders

The World's 30 Most Productive Companies 2024

Exemplar Research

How Georgia Pacific Crossed the Chasm

Solution Selection Matrix

Connected Frontline Workforce (CFW) Applications

Solutions

Generative AI Transforms Six Key Manufacturing Value Streams

Transformation Blueprint

Future of Industrial Work: Future-proofing Your Operations

Trending

The Industrial Transformation (IX) Event Productivity Pathfinders Keynote 

GLOBAL HEAD OF

Quality & Continuous Improvement

These leaders are focused on transforming the consumer experience...

as they work toward building a culture of quality, reducing the total cost of quality, and ensuring quality and compliance processes are optimized across the value chain.

They are responsible for cross-functional teams and a matrixed organization that can spans geographies, business units, and sites.

Our Research Coverage Areas

Quality 4.0

Benchmarking Sprints
  • Quality 4.0 Maturity
Advisory Sprints
  • Digital CI: Transforming your Production System
  • A Data-Centric Culture of Quality
  • New Product Introductions
  • Supplier Quality Management
  • Product Safety and Traceability
SSM
  • Next-Gen EQMS

Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Global Head of Quality & Continuous Improvement

 
Foundational Research

The Softer Side of Quality 4.0 Transformation

Exemplar Research

How Pfizer changed Culture to Cross the Transformation Chasm

Solution Selection Guide

Enterprise Quality Management Software

Challenges and Solutions

Blurry Lines aren't helping Quality 4.0 Leaders

Industry Spotlight

Real-Time Automated Batch Release: Nirvana or Reality for Life Sciences

Trending

Three ways Quality Leaders can Jumpstart Transformation Today

GLOBAL HEAD OF

EHS & Sustainability

These leaders are focused on effecting change within their organizations...

and extended supply chains, operationalizing sustainability to achieve corporate commitments, and building a culture of safety to minimize the risk of serious incidents and fatalities.

They are responsible for cross-functional teams and a matrixed organization that spans geographics, business units, and sites.

Our Research Coverage Areas

Sustainability

Benchmarking Sprints
  • EHS 4.0 & Sustainability Maturity
Advisory Sprints
  • Operationalizing Sustainability & ESG
  • A Culture of Safety and  Sustainability
  • ORM
SSM
  • Next-Gen EHS and ESG Reporting

Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Global Heads of EHS & Sustainability

 
Foundational Research

Benchmarking EHS 4.0

Exemplar Research

How Raytheon Implemented EHS 4.0 to Digitally Transform Safety and Risk Management

Solution Selection Guide

Enterprise Health and Safety Software

Challenges and Solutions

Operationalizing Sustainability

Industry Spotlight

Managing EHS in High-Risk Industries

Trending

CFW Solutions: A Blueprint for Selecting Your Manufacturing App

INITIATIVE LEADERS OF

Factory of the Future 

These leaders are focused on driving Smart Manufacturing in discrete and batch industries...

Industry 4.0, and digital transformation initiatives across a global fleet of assets in the automotive, industrial equipment, aerospace, defense, food, beverage, consumer products, and life sciences industries.

They are responsible for cross-functional teams and bringing together a diverse set of stakeholders to drive step-change improvements, including IT, OT, Continuous Improvement, and Operations.

Our Research Coverage Areas

Factory of the Future

Benchmarking Sprints
  • Factory of the Future Maturity
Advisory Sprints
  • Supply Chain Agility and Flexibility
  • Digital Twins: Products, Processes
  • Next-Gen Automation
SSM
  • Next-Gen MES
  • IX Platforms
  • IX Trusted Software and Services Partners
  • CFW Applications

Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Factory of the Future Leaders

 
Foundational Research

Factory of Industrial Work: Develop a Sustainable Workforce Strategy

Exemplar Research

How Cargill and Southwire Built an Industrial Transformation Foundation for Scale

Solution Selection Guide

Connected Frontline Workforce (CFW) Applications

Challenges and Solutions

Future-proof Your Operations with this Transformation Blueprint

Leadership Guide

Unified Performance Excellence (UPX): The Improvement Engine for Industrial Transformation

Trending

Why your Future of Industrial Work Initiative Will Fail

INITIATIVE LEADERS OF THE

Autonomous Plant

These leaders are focused on driving Smart Manufacturing within process and infrastructure industries...

Industry 4.0, and digital transformation initiatives across a global fleet of assets in the chemicals, materials, metals, mining, oil, gas, power, and infrastructure industries.

They are responsible for cross-functional teams and bringing together a diverse set of stakeholders to drive step change improvements, including IT, OT, Continuous Improvement, and Operations.

Our Research Coverage Areas

Autonomous Plant

Benchmarking Sprints
  • Autonomous Plant Maturity
Advisory Sprints
  • OpEx 4.0
  • APM
  • Digital Twins
  • Open Process Automation 
SSM
  • Next-Gen APM
  • IX Platforms
  • IX Trusted Software and Services Partners
  • CFW Applications

Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Autonomous Plant Leaders

 
Foundational Research

Leverage Tech Like a Pro: Lessons from Industrial Transformation Leaders

Exemplar Research

Insight from Enel and Pure Cycle on the Journey Towards Autonomous Operations

Solution Selection Guide

Asset Performance Management Software

Challenges and Solutions

Empower Manufacturing with Generative AI: A New Frontier of Possibilities

Industry Spotlight

The Autonomous Plant in Chemical Manufacturing

Trending

Why Your Unified Performance Excellence Initiative Will Fail

GLOBAL HEAD OF

IT, OT, Analytics 

These leaders are focused on supporting top management with next-gen technology roadmaps and architectures...

that balance cost, performance, sustainability, and agility in order to meet organizational objectives – all while protecting and utilizing critical company assets, including data, intellectual capital, plants, property, and most importantly, people.

They are responsible for cross-functional teams and bringing together a diverse set of stakeholders to drive step-change improvements, including IT-OT convergence, and capturing, providing, and analyzing important analytical insights in order to empower teams throughout the organization.

Our Research Coverage Areas

Architecture & Analytics

Benchmarking Sprints
  • Analytics that Matter
Advisory Sprints
  • Operational Data Lakes and the Datahub
  • IT-OT Convergence
SSM
  • Advanced Industrial Analytics
  • IX Infrastructure

Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
IT, OT, & Analytics Leaders

 
Foundational Research

Advanced Industrial Analytics: 4 Proven Strategies to Scale Industrial Transformation

Exemplar Research

How Huntington Ingalls & Pfizer positioned IT to help Scaling their Industrial Transformation

Solution Selection Guide

Industrial Transformation (IX) Platforms

Challenges and Solutions

Industrial Transformation is Becoming an IT Land Grab & That MAY be Okay

Industry Spotlight

Building a Next-Gen Operational Architecture with a Data Hub

Trending

The Three User Personas of Advanced Industrial Analytics Software

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