IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-00644623.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Innovation and project development : an impossible equation ? Lessons from an innovative automobile project development

Author

Listed:
  • Franck Aggeri

    (CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Blanche Segrestin

    (CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Product develoment performance has become a key issue for car manufacturers. But innovation seeks to outperform dominant design, whereas project develoment targets well-defined areas (costs, lead times, quality etc.). This article provides an analysis of the extent to which innovation is compatible with recent managerial and technical methods (project and multi-project management, co-develoment, simulation tools and digital mock-ups, etc.). The analysis is based on a recent development project conducted at Renault in which these various techniques were used in an attempt to achieve highly ambitious targets simultaneously in the aread of lead times, costs and innovation. During the course of the project, unexpected design problems revealed failures in co-ordination, monitoring procedures and expertise. We argue that recent project develoment methods can induse negative effects on collective learning processes and that these effects have managerial implications for innovative developments.

Suggested Citation

  • Franck Aggeri & Blanche Segrestin, 2007. "Innovation and project development : an impossible equation ? Lessons from an innovative automobile project development," Post-Print halshs-00644623, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00644623
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2007.00457.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lee, Amy H.I. & Chen, Hsing Hung & Chen, Silu, 2015. "Suitable organization forms for knowledge management to attain sustainable competitive advantage in the renewable energy industry," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 1057-1064.
    2. Vogel, Wolfgang & Lasch, Rainer, 2015. "Approach for Complexity Management in Variant-rich Product Development," Chapters from the Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL), in: Blecker, Thorsten & Kersten, Wolfgang & Ringle, Christian M. (ed.), Operational Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chains: Optimization Methods, Data-driven Approaches and Security Insights. Proceedings of the Hamburg , volume 22, pages 97-140, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Business Logistics and General Management.
    3. Franck Aggeri, 2016. "La recherche-intervention : fondements et pratiques," Post-Print hal-01230457, HAL.
    4. Franck Aggeri, 2017. "How can performativity contribute to management and organization research? Theoretical perspectives and analytical framework [Qu'est-ce que la performativité peut apporter aux recherches en managem," Post-Print hal-01609172, HAL.
    5. Irène Kilubi & Hans-Dietrich Haasis, 2016. "26 Years of Strategic Technology Partnering: Investigating Trends, Patterns and Future Prospects in Research Through Frequency Analysis," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(02), pages 1-44, April.
    6. Dunk, Alan S., 2011. "Product innovation, budgetary control, and the financial performance of firms," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 102-111.
    7. Arul Jothi Km & Ahmed Mohammed Kamaruddeen & Kuan Tian Ying, 2014. "Process Innovation and the Financial Performance of Malaysian Food Processing Company," International Journal of Management Sciences, Research Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 4(10), pages 413-420.
    8. Romain Beaume & Rémi Maniak & Christophe Midler, 2009. "Crossing innovation and product projects management: comparative analysis in the automotive industry," Post-Print halshs-00402389, HAL.
    9. Tsinopoulos, Christos & Yan, Ji & Sousa, Carlos M.P., 2019. "Abandoning innovation activities and performance: The moderating role of openness," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(6), pages 1399-1411.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00644623. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.