Cranfield School of Management

About the International Centre for Programme Management

The International Centre for Programme Management (ICPM), in partnership with Hewlett Packard (the world's largest technology solutions and services company), is executung a portfolio of R&D activities, in pursuit of innovation in the way that organisations, their clients and suppliers, deliver complex programmes and projects.

With ever-increasing levels of complexity, existing processes and management practices are often insufficient to deliver all the business benefits expected from the implementation of large projects and programmes. 

Our mission is to advance the boundaries of Programme and Project Management(PPM) to where it becomes an integral part of organisational strategy. ICPM is renowned as a centreof excellence and our current and ongoing research areas include:

  • Managing risk
  • Complexity
  • Resilience
  • Configuring Programme Management 
  • What drives and constrains organisational changes
  • Intelligent clients; intelligent providers; intelligent relationships
  • PPM research and international standards 
  • Public Sector programmes
  • Programme leadership

We are committed to developing cutting-edge research and creating new knowledge in the area of programme and project management. Our outputs are highly valued by our corporate partners.  


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