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Insights
La Boussole is a space for reflection and shared insights, helping you make better decisions and guide organisational transformation. Our articles bring together practical analysis, first-hand experience and actionable advice to improve performance and visibility in a constantly changing environment.
Professional Training: What 2026 Requires Us to Rethink
As funding for vocational training falls, the challenge is to build more collaborative, targeted and measurable learning pathways, combining personal support, work-based immersion and skills development in new practices, particularly AI.
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Finance Business Partnering: From Financial Control to Decision Support
La Boussole shows how Finance can become a true driver of performance by moving from a control function to business partnering, connecting working capital requirements, EBITDA and operational decisions to create momentum and lasting value.
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Aligning Omnichannel Strategy and Working Capital for a Fine Fragrance House
La Boussole helped a luxury house turn unbalanced e-commerce growth into overall business performance by aligning marketing and supply chain through S&OP, reducing working capital requirements, releasing cash and improving both product availability and profitability.
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Consulting or Training: Why Choose?
Lasting transformation depends on the right balance between processes and people. At La Boussole, co-designed consulting and action-based training work together to help teams become independent, effective and able to steer their own course over time.
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Commitment & CSR: Why Donate 1% of Revenue to the Planet?
La Boussole champions lasting performance by fully integrating environmental responsibility into business strategy, combining commercial rigour, responsible procurement and practical action to protect the oceans through 1% for the Planet.
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Negotiation in Focus: Moving Beyond Power Struggles to Create Value
With supply chains under pressure, La Boussole shows that effective procurement negotiation depends on a principled, well-prepared and collaborative approach that protects both supplier relationships and business performance over time.
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Frontline Management: Taking Ownership of Profitability
La Boussole shows that operational managers are the true guardians of EBITDA when they understand the links between day-to-day decisions, financial performance and team engagement, and are trained to run their activities as responsible profit centres.
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Digitalisation & Soft Skills: A Winning Combination for Your Teams
La Boussole shows that digitalisation creates real value when tools are accompanied by the development of teams' soft skills, enabling adoption, effective use and lasting performance.
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Learning by Doing: Moving Beyond Theory That Never Gets Used
La Boussole explains why most training budgets are wasted when learning lacks an operational foundation, and how to turn them into a profitable investment through immersive teaching, real-world action, social learning and lasting independence.
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Collective Intelligence: Why 70% of Projects Fail — and How to Make Yours Succeed
La Boussole shows that successful business transformation depends above all on the ability to engage teams, making people — often seen as a risk — the main driver of commitment, performance and lasting change.
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Supply Chain Agility: Securing Your Flows in Uncertain Times
La Boussole explains how businesses can turn their supply chain into a strategic asset by moving from a rigid, highly optimised model to a resilient organisation built on flow visibility, financial balance, team collaboration and continuous improvement.
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Beyond Price: Building a Responsible Procurement Strategy
La Boussole shows that the apparent purchase price can be misleading, and that lasting value comes from a strategic approach combining total cost of ownership, risk management, CSR and supplier relationships built on principled negotiation.
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Crisis Management and Profitability on a High-Pressure Hospital Construction Project
La Boussole helped a construction company secure a high-risk hospital project by giving frontline managers the tools to manage flows and profitability, turning a predicted financial failure into a measurable operational and financial recovery.
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Digitalisation and Human Capital: Transforming Procurement for an Insurance Company
La Boussole unlocked a digital transformation of indirect procurement by refocusing support on how people use the tools and on their soft skills. This enabled an insurance group to meet its cost-reduction objectives while aligning the tool, teams and working environment.
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Securing the Production Ramp-Up of an Aerospace Programme Through Turbulence
Facing a critical production ramp-up under major industrial and geopolitical constraints, La Boussole helped an aerospace supplier secure production by combining procurement resilience, operational excellence and management training, with measurable results in performance and margin.
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Discover the Procurement Profession with Caroline, an ifocop Consultant and Trainer
Discover the procurement profession with Caroline, an expert procurement professional, consultant and trainer at ifocop, and Xavier Berrig, founder of La Boussole and procurement and supply chain trainer and consultant.
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Procurement in a Consulting Firm with Christophe Hug (KLB)
Procurement in Consulting with Christophe Hug, Procurement Manager at KLB
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HR & Procurement: The People Challenges Facing the Profession with Anne-Laure Gogeon (RATP Dev)
HR & Procurement: Challenges, Changes and Perspectives with Anne-Laure Gogeon (RATP Dev)
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Freelance Procurement: Nabil Shares His Insights into Buying Professional Services
Go behind the scenes of freelance procurement and buying professional services with Nabil, an experienced professional, in conversation with Xavier Berrig, founder of La Boussole, procurement and supply chain trainer and consultant, and ifocop trainer.
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Interim Management in Procurement with Thomas Gravis
Discover everything you need to know about interim management in procurement with Thomas Gravis, an expert interim manager.
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