Education & Research at the PROJEKTMANAGENT GROUP Grundvig Kick off Meeting Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Roland Gareis Prague, December 2011

Angebots - legung - Conception- alizing research - A Proposing, performing research Students, Community Managing a partner relation - B Facilitating PMUni Service PR Service Agreeing on, supervising a Master or PhD Thesis Primary Processes Secundary Processes Tertiary Processes Planning the courses Performing a course Marketing & PR Product development Performing a PMBA program Cooperating in a lecture, an event Process Map of the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP Budgeting Personnel management Infra- structure management Strategic planning Project portfolio management Defining a research topic

PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP: Education Department of the WU Vienna - University of Economics and Business Administration since 1994 Education programmes –Special subject „Project Management“ of different master degree programmes –Professional MBA “Project & Process Management” (in Vienna and in Bucharest) pm lectures and pm events (in cooperation with RGC) –happy projects events Facilitator of PMUni – an international network of universities

Special Subject „Project Management“: Structure Duration: 2 semesters 3 mandatory courses –Basic Course: Methods for Project Management and Programme Management –Advanced Course I: Organisational Design of Projects and Programmes –Advanced Course II: Management of the process- & project- oriented Company 3 enrichment courses: –IT Support in Project and Programme Management –PM Practice Dialogue –Seminar for diploma students

Professional MBA Programme NoModule Lecturer Date 1Operations ManagementRoland Gareis Managing People & OrganizationsWolfgang Elsik Process ManagementVioleta Simionescu Project Management MethodsVioleta Simionescu Project Costs, Project Risk Management & Project DiscontinuitiesAlina Bargaoanu Design of Project Organization & Program ManagementRoland Gareis Project start, Controlling, Close-DownAlina Bargaoanu Data Analysis & Decision MakingAlois Geyer Marketing ManagementBarbara St ö ttinger Financial ReportingKenneth Ferris Financial ManagementManfred Fr ü hwirth ControllingManfred Fr ü hwirth

Professional MBA Programme II NoModule Lecturer Date 13International Project Management ApproachesSimona Bonghez Changes & ProjectsRoland Gareis Social Competencies in ProjectsSimona Bonghez Management of the Project-Oriented CompanyRoland Gareis happy projects eventsSpeakers Managerial EconomicsStephan Schulmeister Preparation for the PM CertificationSimona Bonghez Competitive Analysis & StrategyBernhard Scherzinger Global MarketsKlaus Rabbel Information Systems ManagementDetlef Schoder Entrepereneurship and InnovationReinhard Prugle Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCraig Smith LeadershipDavid Sluss

PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP: Research Project management –Sustainability & project management –Social competence for projects Management of the project-oriented company –Managing changes by projects –HR management in the POC

PMG Research Processes Chain of research processes for the development of a master thesis or of a PhD thesis by a student –Defining a research topic –Offering topics and agreeing on a thesis topic with a student (group) –Supervising the thesis Chain of research processes for proposing and performing research by the PMG –Defining a research topic –Conceptionalizing a research –Proposing a research (by a project) –Planning and performing the research (by a project or a programme)

Roles Tasks Professor Assistants Cooperation partner Administration … Defining a research topic Market and community observation, demand identification First studies (rough literature analysis, master theses) Further literature analysis Establishing first cooperation contacts Definition of first working hypotheses Conceptionalizing research Detailed literature analysis Conception: Objectives Conception: Research process (theory, empircal work) Conception: Organization, budget, financing, … Developing a proposal, proposing, negotiating Proposing the research Planning: Objectives, developing hypotheses Preparing presentations, master theses … Performing the research Pilot … Publications and presentations Ideenkonkretisierung: Weitere Literaturanalyse Klärung von Kooperationskontakten Definition erster Thesen Forschungskonzeption: Literaturanalyse Konzeption Ziele: Definition Thesen Konzeption Forschungsprozess (Theorie, Emiprie) Konzeption Organisation, Budget, Finanzierung,.. Antragerstellung Forschungsplanung: Zieleplanung: Thesenformulierung, Vorträge Diplomarbeiten Forschungsdurchführung Pilot ….. Verwertung der Forschungsergebnisse Ideengenerierung Marktbeobachtung Erste Studien (Diplomarbeiten, grobe Literaturanalyse) Chain of Research Processes of the PMG

Research Paradigm of the PMG Social systems theory (Luhmann 1995) Radical constructivism (Watzlawik 1976, von Glaserfeld 1995) Qualitative social research (Eisenhard 1989; Eisenhard and Graebner 2007)

Research project: SustPM 12

PMG Cooperations: Industry, Community

Cooperation Benchmarks Finland, Norway –Strong and long-term relationships with the industry –Industry sponsored research organized in programs –Research agenda is defined in cooperation between industry and academia –Often specific national focus (e.g. project 2000, Norway) Hungary –Ericsson: PM Laboratory together with Corvinus University 14

Cooperations of the PMG with the Industry Past –Penn State University: Workshop for Construction Management Departments organized by the nuclear power industry –Tempus project (EU) to establish master degree programs at Romanian universities –Establishment of the Certificate Program „International Project Management“ in 1982 financed by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce –Establishment of the PMBA Project & Process Management in 2007 in cooperation with the WU Executive Academy Actual –PMI financed research project „SustPM“ –Research cooperations with Telekom Austria, Siemens, KAV, etc. Case studies, master theses, etc. 15

Community Relations PMUni COST Action on Mega Projects –EU supported research cooperation Grundvig Life Long Learning Project Consulting cooperation with the RGC PMI relations –PMI international (research board) –PMI Austria (university relations) IPMA –Research board membership PMA (Austrian IPMA chapter) –Board membership 16

Happy Projects! Roland Gareis