Teaching: Methodology
- Use hands on enterprise and consulting experience linked to academic topics and publications in peer reviewed journals
- Development of exercises, cases, and role plays to facilitate the understanding of the concepts presented, with the introduction of andragogy concepts as appropriate. This allows blending the teaching of hard skills with soft skills to achieve the identified objectives.
- Leverage of learning tools such as Moodle, and references to recent events with tools such as the Financial Times annotation and “Newslines”.
- Use of electronic assessment via Multiple Choice Questionnaires to validate teaching
Program Management
- Master Strategy Organization Consulting at EDHEC. The program is used for the Economist ranking of Masters in Management, where EDHEC ranked third in 2021's global ranking. The program capitalized on the involvement of major strateagy and management consulting firms who contributed with their expertise, about AI, in Operations or Agile Management. Students engaged also on projects with major firms, to demonstrate their skills, like in the Amazon Innovation Award, with a team from the MSc Strategy Consulting winning the award facing other top schools in France, or to contribute to significant social initiatives like the European Handicap Week.
- Horizon Purchasing and Supply Web Management, an innovative program combining hard and soft skills, traditional functional training, and an opening on new technologies reshaping supply management and strategy development
Topics
The first courses were based on Michel Philippart's experience in strategic purchasing. His interest in disruptive transformation and intangible assets lead him to develop a broader range of courses.
- Disruptive Technologies
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Business and Society
- Value Creation with Digital technologies
- Understanding the Blockchain for Business (with a simulation)
- IoT, Industrial IoT, Wearable IoT
- New Trends in Supply and Operations
- Digital Transformation Challenges: The human factors
- Creating value with the Metaverse: from technology to guest experience
- Consulting and Project Delivery
- Cracking Business Cases
- Delivering consulting projects
- Contemporary Issues in Consulting, with the contribution of leading consulting firms
- Research Methods for Business School Projects
- Supply Management and Operations
- The Category Management Process: Tools and Techniques of Purchasing Professionals
- Supplier Management Support of the Firm’s Strategic Agenda
- Measure of Suppliers and Supplier Management Performance
- Building Collaborative Relations with Innovation Suppliers
- Charte des Bonnes Pratiques entre Donneurs d’Ordre et PME
- Supplier Risk Management
- Operations Leadership
- Operations & Supply Chain for Entrepreneurs and new Ventures
- Management of Operations and Supply Chain
- Purchasing and Supply Chain in Luxury, Fashion and Design
- Purchasing and Supply Chain in the Sport Industry
- Purchasing and Supply Chain in the Sporting Goods Industry
- International Supplier Management
- International Business
Institutional Collaborations
Michel Philippart has contributed to many education programs in supplier management, such as:
- Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland
- EDHEC Business School, France, Singapore
- Grenoble Graduate School of Management, France
- IAE, Grenoble, France
- ESCP Europe
- Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Toulouse, France
- Bordeaux Ecole de Management
- Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada
- EM Lyon, France, China
- Verein / Association procure.ch, Suisse
- IESEG Lille, France
- ICHEC Bruxelles, Belgium
- ABCAL: Association Belge des Cadres d’Achat et de Logistique, Belgium
- MDI, Algeria
- Institut Léonard de Vinci – Paris, France
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- HEC, Paris, France
- Universitade Federal de Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
- Vlerick, Ghent/Leuven, Belgium
- McKinsey summer university, Europe
Corporate and executive training
Corporate training cannot be a mere transposition of academic training. The target population is more mature, and has already a perspective on the topic. Therefore, impactful corporate training requires preparation based on situations encountered in the learning environment. Michel Philippart has run and lead ambitious multi-year training programs for global leaders, deployed from China to the USA.
Through his association business schools, Michel Philippart assists corporations to enhance the supplier management skills of their managers. Programs are usually custom developed and include a mix of cases, theory, role playing. They cover a wide range of essential skills from the basics like cost analysis and negotiation preparedness, to the more advanced like supplier development, strategic partnerships. Soft / behavioral skills can also be included in programs, such as project management, presentation to hostile audiences, etc.
To complete the training, individual coaching and project support allow to significantly enhance the success of transformation projects. This approach can replace traditional consulting projects by empowering internal own resources, which significantly increase the acceptation of the recommendations versus externally developed solutions. If you seek assistance, do not hesitate to contact him.
Cases and pedagogical materials
Published, with pedagogical notes
- BIOLOGICAL VACCINE SCIENCE: CAPTURING THE VALUE OF SUPPLIER RELATIONS The Case Center Case Reference no. 613-049-1
- GreenNature : jeu de négociation pour construire une supply chain pérenne, Centrale de Cas et de Médias Pédagogiques, N0003
For class settings but not published
- Car fleet management
- Technology acquisition (ZeusTech)
- Setting a new purchasing organization (MBI)
- Acquisition of rare materials (Vicuña Chase)
- Negotiation and consolidation role play
- Role plays to combine training in hard and soft skills
- Ramping up covid vaccine supply chain
- Advising industry specific clients on megatrends
Manuals for institutional use
- Purchasing Category Management, a Harvard Core Course style support for purchasing courses
- “Your Professional Thesis: Guide to Business School Students”, a guide to help students deliver rigorously conducted and effectively communicated research on contemporary relevant business topics