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Research and development

Our philosophy

We see our research as the first step in a development process that results in realised benefits. Working with industry partners we engage with the best in current scholarship to produce rigorous and relevant research reports.

Development process

Producing the research is the first step towards realised benefits. We then:

  • Productise: channel our findings into an appropriate product (document, workshop, teaching materials, etc.)
  • Prototype: working with an industry partner in a real life situation produce a preliminary version to establish proof of concept
  • Pilot: incorporating lessons learned from the prototype our industry partner, with our input, runs a pilot scheme to test the findings further and demonstrate their value
  • Roll-out: our partner then implements the change in their organisation. A change that is practical, focused and relevant to their needs and operations.

Workstreams

Our workstreams are organised under five major themes:

The current status of our themes and workstreams are shown below:

 

 

ICPM research workstreams

 

Theme 1 Practices

Workstream 1

Act of faith or return on investment:

realising the promise of risk and opportunity management

In progress

Workstream 2

The chain of satisfaction:

from managing conformance to maximising performance in programme and project environments

In progress

Workstream 3

PMO

In progress

Workstream 4

Step back from chaos:

actively managing complexity in programmes and projects

In progress

Workstream 5

Temporary organisation, ongoing improvement:

making programmes and projects a learning environment

In progress

Workstream 6

Of course you can have it on Tuesday:

behavioural planning and sustained false optimism

In progress

Workstream 7

So much work, so little time:

EPM, managing portfolios and supply network capacity

Scheduled for

future work

Workstream 8

Taipei 101:

resilience

In progress

Workstream 9

Hitting the buffers:

TOC in PPM

Scheduled for

future work

Workstream 10

Innovative practices in PPM

Scheduled for

future work

Workstream 11

What do programme managers do?

Scheduled for

future work

Theme 2 Competencies

Workstream 12

Competencies in three career streams:

programme, project and PMO managers

Scheduled for

future work

Theme 3 Intelligent client, intelligent provider (ICIP)

Workstream 13

The intelligent provider:

proactive capability development

Scheduled for

future work

Workstream 14

The intelligent client:

beyond partnership

In progress

Theme 4 Configuration

Workstream 15

Intelligent maturity and strategic fit

In progress

Workstream 16

Dynamic capabilities

In progress

Workstream 17

Flexibility and dynamic complexity

Scheduled for

future work

Workstream 18

Design for world-class programme management

In progress

Workstream 19

Ambidexterity

Scheduled for

future work

Theme 5 Benefits of programme management

Workstream 20

Benefits of programme management

In progress

 

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