Xavier Boucher

Xavier Boucher is a Professor at Saint-Etienne National Higher School of Mines (ENSMS.SE) and Research Director for the Fayol Institute. His work spans Industrial Engineering, Management, and Information Systems.

• Research Interests: Servicisation, Product-Service Systems (PSS), Industry 4.0, Organizational Agility, Enterprise Architecture, and Competency Integration.
• Teaching: Industrial Engineering, Production Management, Concurrent Engineering, Information Systems Design (MERISE), and Business Process Management.

Research Projects: Coordinator for European initiatives like Digit FOF (2018-2021) and OMI-K2 (2015,2017), and national projects such as AFFINID (2015-2018) and CLEAN Robot (2015-2018). His work focuses on transitioning manufacturing toward PSS, optimizing information systems, and modeling collaborative networks.

Supervision: Directed multiple PhD theses (e.g., Omar Ezzat on mass customization, Michel Lutz on IT capacity planning in microelectronics) and master's projects. His research has resulted in over 40 journal and conference publications.