New model and tool for ideas management during early design phases of innovation processes
Résumé
This paper aims to focus on the early informal design phase of innovative projects that is one of the challenges for industrial companies. More precisely, the question of the ideas management during innovative projects processes is here addressed with a model and tool perspectives. The model is based on three dimensions (concept, technology and potential) and highlights the need of interactions between them regarding strategic and operational levels. The paper presents also a tool dedicated to structure the preliminary exchanges among all stakeholders. This tool is mainly oriented towards the consolidation and the diffusion of new ideas.