Corporate Social Responsibility Summary Report

We meet often with CEOs to discuss AI—a topic that is both captivating and rapidly changing. After working with over 1,000 clients in the past year, we are sharing our most recent learning in a new series designed to help CEOs navigate AI. With AI at an inflection point, the focus in 2025 is on turning AI’s potential into real profit via widespread implementation of AI agents.

In this edition, we discuss the future of manufacturing and the role AI will play in turbocharging growth. We address key questions on the minds of manufacturing leaders:

• What will the future of industrial operations look like?
• Where is the value at stake in an AI transformation? What will be the role of virtual AI and physical AI?
• What enablers need to be put in place to realize value at scale?

This document is a guide for CEOs and manufacturing leaders to cut through the hype around AI in manufacturing and understand what creates value now and in the future.