IPSERA Purchasing & Innovation SIG Workshop (offline)
Exploring New Ways of Innovating within Ecosystems
January 22‒23, 2025
Location: Luxembourg, Offline
The event will be held offline.
Are you researching how companies leverage ecosystems for innovation?
This workshop aims to help participants gain insights into new ways of innovating in ecosystems. We combine research with insights from practice by visiting a company well-known for its leading-edge practices and organizing research presentations and discussions.
Participants will visit Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) and Tomorrow Street: the startup accelerator hosted by VPC, and its Design-to-Cost lab. This part of the workshop aims to learn how VPC innovates within its ecosystems and its best practices in digitalization, innovation, design to cost, and ESG/sustainability.
The workshop spans two days: participants will meet on the afternoon of 22nd January to visit VPC in Luxembourg. A dinner will be organized for the evening in the center of Luxembourg. On day two (23rd January) participants will meet at the University of Luxembourg for working paper presentations, followed by joint discussions and reflections from the session.
Workshop agenda:
Day 1 (22/01/2025)
- 14:00 – 14:15 Welcome at Vodafone Procurement Company
- 14:15 – 15:00 Presentation of VPC: Vodafone Procurement Company by Tolga Tomruk
- 15:00 – 15:30 Visit of Tomorrow Street: The startup accelerator hosted by VPC
- 15:30 – 15:45 Break
- 15:45 – 16:15 Visit of Procurement Design-to-Cost lab
- 16:15 – 17:00 Systemic Change and Procurement – by Hervé Legenvre and by Tolga Tomruk
- TBD Dinner
Day 2 (23/01/2025)
- 09:00 – 10:15 Working paper presentations
- 10:15 – 10:45 Break and networking
- 10:45 – 11:45 Joint discussions and reflections from the session
Please book early as places are limited to 16 participants.
You are invited to submit an extended abstract or a work-in-progress paper (maximum of 10 pages, Times New Roman, font size 12, single-spaced) by January 15, 2025, via email to Johnsen Thomas (tjohnsen@audencia.com) and Hervé Legenvre (herve.legenvre@eipm.org).
The workshop is coordinated by Hervé Legenvre (EIPM - The European Institute of Purchasing Management HQ), Thomas E. Johnsen (Audencia), Ala Arvidsson, and Lisa Govik (Chalmers University of Technology) in collaboration with Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management @University of Luxembourg.
