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Researching the Value of Project Management
(July 16, 2008)

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.

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