2009
IPMA Research Award Winner 2009
Prof. Anbang Qi and Team
Prof. Dr. Anbang Qi is a full professor of Business School of Nankai University( PR. China)
Prof. Qi and his team’s reserch focus on project integrated management methodology for project integrated planning and project overall change control. They start to do this research from 2000 for solving some issues in the Earned Value Management Method. Then they find that project managers need more methods for project integrated management than the EVM as the EVM can only used for two project factors integrated management (even it has some assumption about project scope and quality). And then they have done a lot of research work on this and excogitate the project integrated management methods for three, four, five, six, seven and eight (or all) project factors (quality, scope, time, cost, human resource, communication, procurement and risk) integrated management for different project management integration and
different number of project factors configuration and all these
forms the project integrated management methodology.
2008
IPMA Research Award Winner 2008
Mario Vanhoucke
Prof. Dr. Mario Vanhoucke is a full professor at Ghent University and Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium).
His research study critically analyzes and evaluates various 
Earned Value Management (EVM) based performance measurement and schedule risk analysis methods on a large set of projects. The aim of this experiment is threefold. First, the study searches for static and dynamic drivers of duration forecast accuracy in order to be able to select the most reliable method for a specific project. Second, the study embeds these project tracking methods in a corrective action decision-making framework in order to improve project performance. Finally, the research provides guidelines based on extensive computational experiments on how to set up a project tracking approach which will likely lead to the most reliable results during project execution. The research has led to the development of a new software tool ProTrack (www.protrack.be) that integrates dynamic baseline scheduling with schedule risk analysis and project tracking and control. Download research description (pdf).
IPMA Outstanding Research Contribution 2008
Frank T. Anbari and Young Hoon Kwak
Young Hoon Kwak, Frank T. Anbari, and their team at The George Washington University’s School of Business are honoured for their research on the Impact on Project Management of Allied Disciplines.
The goal of this research, which was partially funded by a grant from the Project Management Institute, was to identify the impact on project management of allied management disciplines and explore innovative project management theories, new trends, and challenges. The research explored the full range of technical and organizational dynamics of project 
management, contributing new insights to project management theory and practice. This will help achieve organizational and strategic goals of the project management community.
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IPMA Outstanding Research Contribution 2008
Ofer Zwikael
Dr Ofer Zwikael is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University.
This research has ranked the impact of various project management processes on project success and identifies
Critical Success Processes that project success is most vulnerable to. As a result of this research, managers can
better invest their limited time and resources in the most effective project management processes to improve project success. Data has been collected in the past seven years in organisations from five continents. The research has identified unique Critical Success Processes for different project scenarios, for example, industries, cultures and level of project risk.
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2007
IPMA Research Award Winner 2007
Manfred Saynisch
Manfred Saynisch and his research team are awarded for the international, interdisciplinary research project: “Project Management 2nd” which is part of the long term research programme “Beyond Frontiers of Traditional Project Management”.
The researchers directed by Manfred Saynisch have analysed and evaluated new perception in modern natural and social sciences (e.g. evolutionary and chaos theory, self-organization, synergetic, non-traditional logic, brain-research, social systems theory, constructivist epistemology, theory of complex systems, etc.) to develop new insights, concepts and some initial recommendations for new perspectives in Project Management.
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IMA Outstanding Research Contribution 2007
Roland Gareis and the team of project orientation [international]
Roland Gareis and the team of project orientation [international] are honoured for the international research programme project orientation [international] organized by the Projektmanagement Group, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
The objectives of this programme were the analysis and benchmarking of about 250 project-oriented companies and of about 10 project-oriented nations by using the models “project-oriented company mature” and “project-oriented society mature”. The results from the analyses are the basis for strategies to further develop the project-oriented companies and project-oriented nations. Cooperating project-oriented nations were Austria, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and South Africa. (www.poi.pmgroup.at)
IPMA Outstanding Research Contribution 2007
Constanta Bodea and the SinPers team
Constanta Bodea and the SinPers team are honoured for the Romanian research project “Innovative System for Personalized and User-centered Learning with Application to Project Management (SinPers)” developed by the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest), the Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest and the Project Management Association from Romania.
The project brings new conceptual approaches and technical solutions for three basic elements: the teaching-learning process modelling (e.g. learning and support activities flow, delivery conditions, methods, properties, environments), the learner modelling (e.g. cognitive state, learning style, accessibility) and the learning content modelling (e.g. domain ontology, learning object, metadata). (www.ici.ro/sinpers/).