Since 2020, manufacturing leaders have faced the existential threat of a negative feedback loop driven by simultaneous labor and productivity crises. Tenure, time-in-position, and turnover of the frontlines have worsened by more than 75% at many sites, with a dramatic impact on safety, quality, and productivity. Yet CEOs and boards expect the same level of performance and continuous improvement as delivered pre-pandemic. Unfortunately, for 92% of industrial companies, these expectations are not based on reality.

LNS Research’s Industrial Productivity Index shows that only 8% of companies have been able to achieve long-term and short-term growth in both productivity and revenue, with an average 10-year productivity growth of 29.8%!  These Pathfinder companies have been able to transform their operations through a differentiated strategy that spans the end-to-end value chain.

Download the presented content from this session below to explore the journey of the world's most productive companies as LNS Research President and Co-founder Matthew Littlefield and Principal Analyst Niels Andersen share our new Productivity Pathfinders research findings, including further thought leadership insights from industry leaders:

•  Jim Beilstein, VP of Global Operations & Supply Chain at Owens Corning

•  Nicola Pizza, Global VP of Operation Excellence at Ab InBev

•  Peter Kraemer, Senior Advisor at AB InBev