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This page: The Fault Zones in Cross-Corporate Projects ••• 2022 Income report ••• Education in PBM ••• Market trend ••• 2018 Income report ••• Conflicts in PBM

Study: The Fault Zones in Cross-Corporate Projects


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/the-fault-zones-in-project-business/

Published:
June 2024

Summary:
A study with 346 survey participants revealed a surprising insight for Project Business: While in smaller cross-corporate projects, the root sources of trouble are more frequently found inside the organizations involved, in larger projects, these fault zones are shifting to the interfaces between the organizations.

Reference:
Project Business Foundation (2024). Practitioners Unveil The Fault Zones in Project Business, June [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/the-fault-zones-in-project-business/ (Accessed: ## #### 202#)..

Fault Zones in Project Business

2022 Income Report: Customer vs. Internal Projects


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/report-income-comparison-2022

Published:
September 2022

Summary:
In 2018, a survey showed that in high-paying countries, project managers in customer projects are on average better paid than their colleagues in internal projects. In low-paying countries, project managers in internal projects were better paid.

This new study, 4 years and a global pandemic later, was performed to find out if this observation is still true.

Reference:
Project Business Foundation (2022) Income Report: Customer vs. Internal Projects, September [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/report-income-comparison-2022 (Accessed: ## #### 202#).

Customer projects are different from internal projects.

The State of Education for Project Business


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/report-education-for-pbm/

Published:
March 2022

Summary:
9 out of 10 practitioners in Project Business Management emphasized the need for domain-specific education, but only 1/3 said that he or she had received that.

Reference:
Lehmann, O.F. (2022) ‘Market Report: The State of Education for Project Business’, Project Business Foundation, March [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/report-education-for-pbm/ (Accessed: ## ### 202#).


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/market-report-trends-in-make-or-buy/

Published:
September 2021 

Summary:
A survey confirms findings from earlier research that project business management is a big trend. Work that organizations would have done internally some few years ago is now outsourced to contractors. For the contractor organizations, projects for paying customers are a growth-oriented business model.

Reference:
Lehmann, O.F. (2021) ‘Market Report: Trends in Make or Buy Decisions’, Project Business Foundation, September [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/market-report-trends-in-make-or-buy/ (Accessed: ## ### 202#).

2018 Income Report: Customer vs. Internal Projects


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/report-income-comparison-2018/

Published:
June 2018 

Summary:
A survey seems to show at first glance that project managers in internal projects and in customer projects earn similar income on a global scale. However, digging deeper into the details, a surprising difference gets revealed.

Reference:
Lehmann, O.F. (2022) Income Report: Customer vs. Internal Projects, June [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/report-income-comparison-2018/ (Accessed: ## ### 202#).

Note:
The study repeated a study from 2022 that can be found here.

High-price vs. low-price contractors in Project Business

Report: Conflicts in Project Business


URL:
https://project-business.org/research/conflicts-in-project-business/

Published:
August 2017 

Summary:
Conflicts in cross-corporate projects quickly become a nightmare for all the people and companies involved. Everyone’s expectations were geared toward great project and business success that they could be proud of. Instead, there is anger, frustration and, in the worst case, legal action. A survey established the most frequent causes of conflicts in project business.

Reference:

Project Business Foundation (2017) Report: Conflicts in Project Business, September [Online]. Available from: https://project-business.org/research/conflicts-in-project-business/ (Accessed: ## ### 202#).

Frequency of causes of conflict in Project Business