Education & Research at the PROJEKTMANAGENT GROUP

Grundvig Kick off Meeting

Vienna University of Economics and Business AdministrationRoland Gareis

Prague, December 2011

Angebots -

legung

-Conception-

alizing research

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Proposing, performingresearch

Students, Community

Managinga

partnerrelation

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FacilitatingPMUni

Service

PR

Service

Agreeing on,supervisinga Master orPhD Thesis

PrimaryProcesses

Secundary Processes

Tertiary Processes

Planningthe

courses

Performinga course

Marketing& PR

Productdevelopment

Performinga PMBA program

Cooperating in a lecture,

an event

Process Map of the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP

BudgetingPersonnelmanagement

Infra-structure

managementStrategicplanning

Project portfolio

management

Defining a research

topic

PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP: Education

Department of the WU Vienna - University of Economics and Business Administration since 1994Education 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 semesters3 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 Company3 enrichment courses:– IT Support in Project and Programme Management– PM Practice Dialogue– Seminar for diploma students

Professional MBA Programme

No Module Lecturer Date  

1 Operations Management Roland Gareis 8.-10.07.2011

2 Managing People & Organizations Wolfgang Elsik 29.-31.07.2011

3 Process Management Violeta Simionescu 12.-14.08.2011

4 Project Management Methods Violeta Simionescu 3.-4.09.2011

5Project Costs, Project Risk Management & Project Discontinuities

Alina Bargaoanu 17.-18.09.2011

6 Design of Project Organization & Program Management Roland Gareis30.09.-

2.10.2011

7 Project start, Controlling, Close-Down Alina Bargaoanu 28.-30.10.2011

8 Data Analysis & Decision Making Alois Geyer 19.-20.11.2011

9 Marketing Management Barbara Stöttinger 10.-11.12.2011

10 Financial Reporting Kenneth Ferris 21.-22.01.2012

11 Financial Management Manfred Frühwirth 18.-19.02.2012

12 Controlling Manfred Frühwirth 10.-11.03.2012

Professional MBA Programme II

No Module Lecturer Date  

13International Project Management Approaches

Simona Bonghez 30.03.2012

14 Changes & Projects Roland Gareis 31.-1.04.2012

15 Social Competencies in Projects Simona Bonghez 28.-29.04.2012

16Management of the Project-Oriented Company

Roland Gareis 8.-9.05.2012

  happy projects events Speakers 10.-11.05.2012

17 Managerial Economics Stephan Schulmeister 2.-3.06.2012

18 Preparation for the PM Certification Simona Bonghez 29.-1.07.2012

19 Competitive Analysis & Strategy Bernhard Scherzinger 21.-22.07.2012

20 Global Markets Klaus Rabbel 11.-12.08.2012

21 Information Systems Management Detlef Schoder 1.-2.09.2012

22 Entrepereneurship and Innovation Reinhard Prugle 22.-23.09.2012

23 Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Craig Smith 13.-14.10.2012

24 Leadership David Sluss 27.-28.10.2012

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)

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

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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

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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,

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Community Relations

PMUniCOST Action on Mega Projects– EU supported research cooperation

Grundvig Life Long Learning ProjectConsulting cooperation with the RGCPMI relations– PMI international (research board)– PMI Austria (university relations)

IPMA– Research board membership

PMA (Austrian IPMA chapter)– Board membership

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Happy Projects!

Roland Gareis