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Olivier Blanchard

Research Director

Olivier Blanchard has extensive experience managing product innovation, technology adoption, digital integration, and change management for industry leaders in the B2B, B2C, B2G sectors, and the IT channel. His passion is helping decision-makers and their organizations understand the many risks and opportunities of technology-driven disruption and help them leverage innovation to build stronger, better, more competitive companies. A trusted source of analysis and insights on digital business and digital innovation, Olivier is also the best-selling author of Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization, and co-author of Building Dragons: Digital Transformation in the Experience Economy and Human/Machine: The Future of our Partnership with Machines. Blanchard is based in Greenville, South Carolina.

Recent Insights, NEWS & RESEARCH:

Does Lenovo and Intel’s “Aura Edition” Partnership Give Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Differentiation in the Copilot+ AI PC Ecosystem?
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, highlights how “Aura Edition” laptops, the result of a partnership between Lenovo and Intel, may give us a glimpse into how PC OEMs and their silicon partners could drive a new era of differentiation in the nascent Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem.
Microsoft Turns Its Sights to the Commercial PC Segment With a New Set of Surface Copilot+ Laptops and 5G Integration
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, provides an overview of Microsoft’s latest Surface Copilot+ PC announcements aimed at the commercial PC segments, and why 5G integration makes more sense in that segment than in the consumer side of the Surface ecosystem.
Qualcomm’s New Mainstream-Tier Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core AI PC Processor May Be the Key to Scale for Copilot+ Windows-On-Arm Adoption
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, discusses why Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core AI PC processor, unveiled at IFA Berlin, could be the scale and adoption accelerator MVP that the Copilot+ Windows-on-Arm AI PC segment needs as the PC refresh cycle begins to gather momentum.
Lenovo Announces New Consumer Copilot+ AI PCs Powered by Snapdragon, Ryzen, and Core Ultra Processors at Lenovo Innovation World in Berlin
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, highlights Lenovo’s new consumer Copilot+ AI PC launches at the IFA show in Berlin, which for the first time includes processors from all three Windows PC semiconductor giants: Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.
Lenovo Announces New Commercial Copilot+ AI PCs Powered by Snapdragon, Ryzen, and Core Ultra Processors at Lenovo Innovation World in Berlin
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, highlights Lenovo’s new commercial Copilot+ AI PC launch at the IFA show in Berlin, which for the first time include processors from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.
Intel’s New Lunar Lake Core Ultra Processors for AI PCs Will Compete Against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and AMD’s Ryzen AI Processors, But Has Intel Fallen Behind?
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares his insights on whether or not Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra processors entering the Windows 11 Copilot+ AI PC market a few months behind Qualcomm’s and AMD’s will cost the semiconductor giant some market share as the PC refresh supercycle begins to heat up.