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The strategy of parallel approaches in projects with unforeseeable uncertainty: the Manhattan case in retrospect

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2011

This paper discusses the literature on the management of projects with unforeseeable uncertainty. Recent work demonstrates that, when confronted with unforeseeable uncertainties, managers can adopt either a learning, trial-and-error-based strategy, or a parallel approach. In the latter,...

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Exploration and Project Management

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008

innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the … improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue that, in line with the work on project classification, a distinction …

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Projects and innovation : the ambiguity of the literature and its implications

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2007

The strategic role of new product development and innovation makes design performance a central concern of managers … this article, we wish to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation. This tendency can, in fact, appear … engineering or basic research. We therefore believe that it can lead to improper use of the project format to manage innovation …

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INNOVATION IN SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION: ECO-CITIES AND SOCIAL HOUSING IN FRANCE AND DENMARK

Boxenbaum, Eva; Georg, Susse; Linde, Gabriela Garza De; … - HAL - 2010

, notably industry, when it comes to innovation; as mechanically responding to external (client) needs and implementing … those related to innovation and sustainability. …

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ECO-DISTRICTS AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES - INSTITUTIONALIZATION THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION

Georg, Susse; Linde, Gabriela Garza De; … - HAL - 2011

Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become "the leading paradigm within urban development" (Whitehead 2003). But...

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Using design theory to characterize various forms of breakthrough R&D projects and their management: revisiting Manhattan & Polaris.

Lenfle, Sylvain; Masson, Pascal Le; Weil, Benoît - HAL - 2014

In this paper we propose to revisit two emblematic projects, Manhattan and Polaris, with the models developed by design theory. In particular we demonstrate, relying on recent advances in design theory, how these major projects, traditionally presented as radical innovations, are in fact quite...

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