Projects - and what next ?

• Christophe MIDLER
  Research Director, CNRS
  Research worker at the CRG (Centre de Recherche en Gestion) of theÉcole polytechnique
  
• Charles CANETTI
  Director of Quality, Methods, and Information Systems, SGN Eurisys
  

Summary

Projects are now seen to be the prerequisite for company survival. A great number of changes regarding project organisation have been made since the Golden Age of engineering in the 1960s. In industry, one of the important new ideas is the need to generate new demans which hitherto have not been met, and to consider the acceptability of a new product by a varied clientele. This change in project management is accompanied by other equally profound changes due to increased knowledge and use of experts, for example in the pooling of achievements.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Lucien CLAES.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 1.