1、The Voice ofDigital LeadersManufacturing 2026Executive summary Market:What volatility demands of a manufacturer Experience:What connected looks like and what fragmented feels like Organization:How digital leaders assign ownership and decision rights Tech&data:What enterprises standardize and what th
2、ey flex Conclusion The Connected Manufacturers Decision Playbook01 02 03 04 05 06 073 7 15 23 29 38 412The Voice of Digital Leaders in Manufacturing 2026Executive summary 013The Voice of Digital Leaders in Manufacturing 2026It is built on conversations with digital,commercial,service and transformat
3、ion leaders inside a select group of global manufacturing organizations.These are not retrospective success stories or distant roadmaps.These are judgments being made now,under pressure,without the luxury of certainty.Volatile demand,geopolitical tension,regulatory pressure,aging technology landscap
4、es,rising customer expectations and the accelerating opportunity around AI are arriving all at once.None of these forces can be addressed in isolation.Together,they compress timelines and narrow the margin for error.In this environment,digital transformation is about deciding what matters most while
5、 conditions keep changing.Likewise,digital advantage in manufacturing is no longer about having the right answers.It is about making coherent decisions across experience,organization,data and technology while pressure mounts.What separates progress from fragmentation is the ability to make a small n
6、umber of hard decisions together.Five such decision tensions define todays connected manufacturer.We unpack those in The Connected Manufacturers Decision Playbook at the end of this report.This report captures digital transformation as it is lived,through real people making real decisions while mark