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Hervé LEGENVRE - EIPM Research on Technology and Collaboration

Hervé Legenvre – EIPM Research on Technology and Collaboration explores the intersection of technology, procurement, innovation, and collaborative business practices. Through research-led insights, expert analysis, and thought leadership, the series examines how organisations can leverage emerging technologies, strengthen strategic partnerships, and foster cross-functional collaboration to improve performance, accelerate innovation, and create long-term value.

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Developing Saudi Arabia’s Construction Ecosystem: Moving from vision to reality at The National Housing...

By Hervé Legenvre Saudi Arabia’s ambition to deliver 600,000 homes by 2030 requires an unprecedented procurement and supply chain effort. The National Housing Company leads...

How Nexans’ E3 Framework - Procurement Management

How Nexans’ E3 Framework Sets a New Standard for Strategic Procurement

By Hervé Legenvre This article examines how Nexans E3 strategic framework applied to procurement act as a source of meaning and purpose for buyers, suppliers and wider...

Surviving Among Giants: How HMD Thrives Through Partnerships

By Hervé Legenvre In less than a decade, HMD has created a niche in the mobile phone market despite fierce competitors. Here is a look...

Chat with AI or Artificial Intelligence. Young businessman chatting with a smart AI or artificial intelligence using an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI.

The Future of AI Language Models (LMs): Three Scenarios that could Reshape Business and...

By Hervé Legenvre, Erkko Autio and Xule Lin This article is part six of an ongoing series - AI Power Plays - that explores the...

Hugging Face: Why Do Most Tech Companies in AI Collaborate with Hugging Face?

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part five of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely...

NVIDIA: Harnessing Open Innovation to Promote User Lock-in

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part four of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely competitive AI landscape,...

Google and AI: The Tech Leader That Had a Perfect AI Plan Until November...

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part three of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely...

Why is OpenAI Moving Towards a Closed Source Strategy?

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part two of the ongoing series—The AI Power Plays—that explores the fiercely competitive AI landscape where...

Why Meta is Positioning Itself as the Champion of Open-Source AI

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part one of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely...

Decarbonizing the Construction Industry: A Case Study of the Eiffage Platform and Circularity Strategies

By Hervé Legenvre and Bertrand Touzet Introduction This article explores the role of platforms and circularity strategies in mitigating climate change generated by the construction industry....

Innovation, the Art of Abolishing Distance: Building the ATTRACT DeepTech Ecosystem

By Hervé Legenvre DeepTech technologies have significant effects on the economy and are an avenue to solve many problems humanity faces. However, the vitality of...

Building the Data Foundations of Supply Chain Decarbonisation

By Hervé Legenvre The journey towards the decarbonisation of supply chains requires harmonised and reliable information on emissions as well as industry collaborations by not-for-profit...

Connecting the Unconnected in the Automotive Industry Four Ecosystems that are Reshaping Automotive Industry...

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio Connectivity is a defining feature of digitalisation. As companies increase their use of digital technologies in their products and...

Triple A.I. Supply Chains

By Fabrice Thomas and Hervé Legenvre Hau L. Lee, a Stanford professor described high performing supply chains back in 2004 as Agile, Adaptative and Aligned....

How Technology Commons Revolutionise Industry Foundations: The Story of the Open Compute Project (OCP)

By Hervé Legenvre and Steve Helvie In this article, we will feature a largely ignored cornerstone of digital transformation - the adoption of technology commons: open-source...

Powering Costing with Artificial Intelligence: The case of Vodafone Procurement

By Hervé Legenvre, Gavin Hodgson and Govind Khandelwal The present article describes how the Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) has adopted Artificial Intelligence technology to boost its...

Business and Governments and Civil Society and a Healthy Planet

By Sylvain Guyoton and Hervé Legenvre The following discussion took place In April 2020. We aimed at confronting our points of views on the contradictory...

The Procurement Call for Agile, What does it mean?

By Andressa Reis and Hervé Legenvre Today, Procurement teams need to embrace the agile ways of working in order to work in synch with their...

Mapping and Strategising Across Business Ecosystems

By Hervé Legenvre and Isabelle Herbet Business ecosystems are the new unit of analysis for strategic thinking; they offer fertile grounds for innovation. This article...

Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value

By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...