Education & Research at the
PROJEKTMANAGENT GROUP
Grundvig Kick off Meeting
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Roland Gareis
Prague, December 2011
Process Map of the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP
Planning
the
courses
Personnel
management
A
Infrastructure
management
Cooperating
in a lecture,
an event
Performing
a PMBA
program
Managing
a
partner
relation
Marketing
& PR
Product
development
Strategic
planning
PR
Budgeting
Service
Conceptionalizing
research
Service
Defining
a research
topic
Facilitating
PMUni
B
Proposing,
performing
research
-
Agreeing on,
supervising
a Master or
PhD Thesis
-
Performing
a course
Angebots
legung
Students, Community
Project
portfolio
management
Primary
Processes
Secundary
Processes
Tertiary
Processes
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- & projectoriented Company
3 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
5
Project Costs, Project Risk Management & Project Discontinuities
Alina Bargaoanu
6
Design of Project Organization & Program Management
Roland Gareis
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
17.-18.09.2011
30.09.-2.10.2011
Professional MBA Programme II
No
Module
Lecturer
Date
13
International Project Management Approaches
Simona Bonghez
14
Changes & Projects
Roland Gareis
31.-1.04.2012
15
Social Competencies in Projects
Simona Bonghez
28.-29.04.2012
16
Management of the Project-Oriented Company
Roland Gareis
happy projects events
Speakers
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
30.03.2012
8.-9.05.2012
10.-11.05.2012
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)
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
…
Administration
Assistants
Tasks
Professor
Roles
Cooperation partner
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, 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
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Happy Projects!
Roland Gareis