ABSTRACT
The management of innovative projects is certainly not absent from the literature on the management of innovation but in our view is not sufficiently treated. This chapter deals with what is called concurrent or simultaneous engineering, ie new organizational processes for developing new products. Concurrent engineering relies on strong and permanent interactions between the functions during the whole design and development process. It aims at breaking the tight partitioning which tends to prevail among the various actors of the organization and which usually leads to successive relays from one function to another as the project unfolds. Simultaneous engineering, instead of calling for such a sequence in time, is based on a parallel and articulated development mode.
