Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Researching the Value of Project Management
Long-awaited PMI study to show global business and organizational performance can be significantly improved through project management.
Preliminary findings of an independent, academic study on the value of project management released today at the Project Management Institute’s biennial research conference in Warsaw, Poland, “clearly demonstrate that business and organizational performance can be significantly improved through the practice of project management,” according to PMI.
The study, “Researching the Value of Project Management,” is “unequivocal in its findings and independently validates what we’ve believed all along,” said Edwin Andrews, PhD, director of Academic and Educational Programs & Services at the Project Management Institute.
Principal investigators Janice Thomas, PhD, and Mark Mullaly, PMP (and member of the Projects@Work editorial board), led the study through Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. Their team of nearly 50 researchers on 17 global teams completed more than 18 months of data collection including interviews with 450 managers and executives.
The researchers’ preliminary findings has been archived and can be viewed online at www.pmi.org/value. Due to publish in October 2008, the study will analyze project management from a detailed matrix of geography, …
Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.
ADVERTISEMENTS
|
"If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man." - Chinese Proverb |