4. Conclusion: renewing the management of knowledge and innovative projects

In the increasingly common context of multi-stakeholder, often inter-organizational projects, current project management models are reaching their limits in terms of relevance and efficiency. Project management is becoming increasingly complex, calling for new knowledge management tools. These tools enable us to find our bearings in this complexity, to create links between players and to co-construct meaning. The need to renew project management has been expressed before, notably in the early 2000s.

The "Rethinking Project Management" movement brings together a dispersed community who note that the standardized, instrumental North American...