Olivier Bouffault is a core member of The Boston Consulting Group’s Consumer and Operations practices.

Since joining BCG in 2005, Olivier has worked with clients in France and throughout Europe on issues related to operating performance in production and supply chain, with particularly deep experience in the consumer goods sector. He is a core member of BCG’s Paris Operations Center.

Olivier has also been working extensively in the travel and tourism sector, where he has supported airlines on a wide range of strategic, commercial, and operational initiatives.

Prior to joining BCG, Olivier worked for Merrill Lynch, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Travel and tourism
  • Digital operations (member of BCG GAMMA)
  • Supply chain and logistics
  • Lean and manufacturing

EDUCATION

  • Master of sciences degree, finance, HEC Paris

Publications and Videos

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Why Airlines’ Network Planning Must Be Bionic

To navigate demand volatility, airline network teams must be more flexible and increasingly bionic, using digital tools to make schedule modifications nearly up until the day of travel.
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How Digital Operations Put The World’s Oldest Airline In The Lead

KLM is using state-of-the-art technology to solve one of the industry’s thorniest dilemmas: dealing with operational tradeoffs.
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What Could Blockchain Do for Airlines?

Blockchain could both improve airline performance and usher in a new era of cooperation, collaboration, and alignment within the industry.
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In Travel, It’s Time to Push AI Beyond the Pilot Phase

Travel companies are rich in data and confront complexity daily—characteristics that play to AI’s strengths. But for AI to succeed, companies must do more than experiment.
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Creating Value in Private Equity with Advanced Data and Analytics

Whether they generate it themselves or acquire it from external sources, the amount of data available to companies today is increasing exponentially. And companies that choose not to use that data to create value risk hastening their own obsolescence or, at the very least, losing competitive advantage.
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AI in the Factory of the Future

Tomorrow’s end-to-end manufacturing AI will think alongside—and sometimes ahead of—human coworkers. But ambitions for the technology far outstrip today’s reality.
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