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Building Professionalism in Project Management.®
ISGI3rd International Workshop
Lille, France
Harry Stefanou, Ph.D. Research Manager
“PMI”, the PMI logo, and “PMBOK” are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
My Purpose today
• Provide overview of the Knowledge and Wisdom Center’s Plans
• Provide overview of Research’s Plans
Knowledge Community is the theme
PMI the Mile High View
Project Management Institute (PMI)–Not-for-profit professional association
–Over 110,000 members worldwide in more than 140 countries
–Established 1969
–Global Organization Headquartered in:Newtown Square, Pennsylvania USA
–PMI Regional Service Centre located in:
Brussels, Belgium
PMI is Global and Growing
• Members in more than 140 countries• Over 300 organizations participating in the PMI Group Billing Plan• Almost 260 chartered and potential chapters • More than 30 chartered Specific Interest Groups (SIG) and five potential SIGs• Two Colleges PMI Membership, 1969-2002
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PMI Membership Distribution
Geographic Distribution
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OutsideUSA/Canada
68.67% USA10.67% Canada20.66% Outside USA/Canada
PMI James R. Snyder Center for Project Management Knowledge & Wisdom
Center• Opened in 2001• Houses 1200 books• Over 100 audio-visual resources• 56 Journal Subscriptions• Complete runs of PMI journals• Over 4000 individually abstracted papers• Three commercial database subscription
– LexisNexis– EBSCO– Dialog
• Over 450 internal documents, conference proceedings and CII publications
Knowledge & Wisdom Center Mission
• To provide the most relevant, reliable and timely information on the practice and profession of project management.
Major Initiatives with External Focus
• Develop Best Practice database– Generally applicable contributions PMI component members
• Searchable by industry, • Searchable by PMBOK® Guide Knowledge areas• Members only section of Web- currently
• Linking Knowledge & Wisdom Center to community sites – Use of Knowledgebase (online catalogue)– Citation and abstracts to inform “chats”
• Goal to make full text available through E-commerce
– Currently two years of PMI journal articles available to members on Web
• “Pmlinks” Information pull technology – future focus• PMI® Thesaurus of Project Management Terms
– Glossary of terms in PMI standards – Official Library of congress source for PM terms
Internal Initiatives
• Intranet– Document repository
• High interest documents to stakeholders– Currently used documents– Inactive but reference quality documents (short term)– Archival quality historic documents (permanent)– Searchable Acronym database
• Procedural Handbooks• Intra-departmental news bulletins
Research
Formed in 1997
Technical research, Market Research,Environmental Scan
SponsorsResearch projects through seed funding
Research Conference
Research Open Working Session
Publication of key learnings
Mission
The PMI research program will be a source for the highest quality information that defines or expands the profession’s body of knowledge.
Our clients and their enterprises will have access to the information to achieve excellence in their strategic initiatives.
Growth in Research
Growth in Research Articles
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Data; T.J. Kloppenberg, W.A.Opfer, Project Management Journal,
Areas of Focus - 2003
• Value of PM
• Risk management
• PMs as Executive Sponsors
• Evolution of PM for business/next generation PM
• Portfolio/Program management/PMO
• Soft Skills in PM
• Strategic plan linkages w/PM
• Practice/profession of PM in a less spend economy
• Metrics for senior managers
• Global PM/virtual
• Knowledge management
• Role of education and qualifications in project success outcomes
• Challenges of global/virtual project management
Research DepartmentFocus for the Future
Community of KnowledgeThe Catalyst
Needs Sharing& application
Discovery