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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
- Industrial Transformation Readiness
Our Research Coverage Areas
- Industrial Productivity Index
- Productivity Pathfinders
Empowering COOs and Their Teams to Improve Safety, Quality, Sustainability, and Productivity
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
- Digital CI: Transforming your Production System
- A Data-Centric Culture of Quality
- New Product Introductions
- Supplier Quality Management
- Product Safety and Traceability
- Next-Gen EQMS
Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Global Head of Quality & Continuous Improvement
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
- Operationalizing Sustainability & ESG
- A Culture of Safety and Sustainability
- ORM
- Next-Gen EHS and ESG Reporting
Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Global Heads of EHS & Sustainability
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
- Supply Chain Agility and Flexibility
- Digital Twins: Products, Processes
- Next-Gen Automation
- Next-Gen MES
- IX Platforms
- IX Trusted Software and Services Partners
- CFW Applications
Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Factory of the Future Leaders
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
- OpEx 4.0
- APM
- Digital Twins
- Open Process Automation
- Next-Gen APM
- IX Platforms
- IX Trusted Software and Services Partners
- CFW Applications
Jumpstarting the Transformation Journey for
Autonomous Plant Leaders
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
- Operational Data Lakes and the Datahub
- IT-OT Convergence
- Advanced Industrial Analytics
- IX Infrastructure