Companies, industries, and nations are becoming more project-oriented as management by projects creates competitive advantage for these social systems. It was the objective of the research programme project orientation [international], performed by the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, to analyse the maturity of about 200 project-oriented companies of 7 nations (Austria, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and South Africa).

The analyses were performed by applying the maturity models “project-oriented company mature” and “project-oriented society mature” of Roland Gareis. The results from the analyses were the basis for the definition of strategies to further develop the participating project-oriented companies and nations.

For the research performed the IPMA-International Project Management Association - honoured Roland Gareis and the research team at the IPMA World Congress in Cracow with the award “Outstanding Research Contribution” Eva Füssinger, the project manager of the national research project “project orientation [austria II]”, has furthermore been awarded the first “IPMA Young Researcher Award Winner 2007”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the final research report please see the homepage www.poi.pmgroup.at or contact Ms. Renate Prantner (renate.prantner@wu-wien.ac.at)

An international team of project management researchers is appealing to project management practitioners, consultants, teachers, trainers, and researchers for assistance in arranging for and conducting interviews with CEOs and other Senior Executives around the world. The research project entitled "Project Managers as Senior Executives?" is co-sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and ESC-Lille (France) University. For details see http://www.pmforum.org/library/research/PMI_ESC_Research_Project.pdf

The research team has just released their "Guidelines for Arranging and Conducting Interviews with CEOs and Other Senior Executives." Interested parties can read and download these guidelines at http://www.pmforum.org/library/research/PMI-ESC-CEO-SrExInterviewGuidelines.pdf.

These Guidelines consist of 2 pages of guidelines plus 5 short appendices:

A. Suggested Letter or E-Mail Message Requesting the CEO/SE Interview
B. Project Managers as Senior Executives Research Project Brochure
C. CEO/Senior Executive Interview Questions (15 in total)
D. Questionnaire: Relative Importance of Unique PM Skills and Similar Senior Executive Skills (2 pages)
E. Information About the Person to be Interviewed.

The Research Team, co-directed by Dr.Jean-Pierre Debourse (pictured above) of ESC-Lille University and Russ Archibald (pictured below), PMI Fellow, will welcome anyone to their extended Team who would like to conduct at least one CEO or Senior Executive interview in their city anywhere in the world.

Russ says that persons conducting these interviews will gain several significant benefits from helping with this research project in this manner , including:

• Visibility to the CEOs and Senior Executives whom you interview

• Insight into the pros and cons of this research project

• Ideas for further investigation by you

• Credit for you and your PM organizations in the final report

• Networking with the other Project Team members

• PDUs with PMI for the time spent.

To download and complete a copy of the survey go to:
http://www.pmforum.org/library/research/PMI-ESC-ResearchSurvey.pdf

If you have any questions concerning this research project or these interviews contact Jean-Pierre Debourse at jp.debourse@esc-lille.fr or Russ Archibald at russell_archibald@yahoo.com.

The PMUni –a new international network for professional education and research in process and project management has been launched. This is a result of a project of the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Vienna), and the STU Bratislava.

14 universities from Austria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Norway and Slovakia have already become partners of the network, including the BI Norwegian School of Management, Corvinus University of Budapest, ESC Lille in France, and the University of Southern Denmark.

The objective of PMUni is the promotion of professional education and research in process and project management internationally by:

• exchanging experiences between education and research institutions and project-oriented companies
• creating cooperation potentials between the partners
• performing quality management and research projects

Further universities, universities of applied science, education and research institutions as well as project-oriented companies are welcome to join and cooperate within the network.

Next PMUni Workshops

Representatives of universities as well as project-oriented companies, interested in education and research, are invited to the next PMUni workshops (free of charge):

• 4th October 2007, Bucharest, Romania

• 26th-27th November 2007, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

For further information please contact Ms. Renate Prantner at renate.prantner@wu-wien.ac.at.