Towards a Methodology for Estimating the Global Impacts of Innovative Design Scenarii

This paper introduces a methodology aiming at reducing the risk of misestimating the future cost and value parameters of an innovation, so as to provide the managers with the instruments of a vision closer to the reality of the global impact. The goal of that method is to create representations of the analysed situation, useful for the decision to innovate, but also to foster the emergence of reusable knowledge for similar situations. So, we concentrate on the re-usable models of the product at design time, and on the relations that exist between the innovative “features”, and the various processes.