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PM Concepts video series
Webinar of book: Megaproject leaders — Reflections on personal life stories
Project Half Double — Thought Leader Session — Part 1 Project Leadership and Success
Project Half Double — Thought Leader Session — Part 2 Project Governance
Interview with Prof Ralf Müller at IPMA Global Research Award Ceremony
Prof Ralf Müller on governance and governmentality in and for projects
An interview with Prof Ralf Müller on leadership in project management
An interview with Prof Ralf Müller on governance and governmentality
Recognition Announcement
March 2021 - Prof Ralf Müller was listed in the Stanford University ranking of global scientists as among the top 2% of the most often cited scientists in the world.
Recognition Announcement
December 2020 - Prof Ralf Müller received the Fellow Award of the Centre for Excellence in Project Management for his lifetime work in organizational project management.
Recognition Announcement
September 2020 - Prof Ralf Müller received the Best Full Paper Award at the British Academy of Management Conference (BAM).
Research Announcement
January 2020 - Prof Ralf Müller and his team were awarded a research grant from the Project Management Institute (PMI) to investigate the governance of interorganziational project networks.
Recognition Announcement
November 2019 - Prof Ralf Müller was awarded the Antura Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in project, program and portfolio management.
Recognition Announcement
September 2019 - Prof Ralf Müller was awarded the IPMA Global Research Award for his studies on horizontal and balanced leadership in projects.
Recognition Announcement
August 2019 - Prof Ralf Müller was awarded the Walt Lipke Award for Excellence in Governance for his academic contributions to the field of project governance.
Recognition Announcement
September 2016 - Prof Ralf Müller was awarded the PMI Fellow of the Institute Award.
The PMI Fellow Award is the highest and most prestigious individual award presented by the Project Management Institute for service to the organization and profession.
Research Announcement
January 2016 - Prof Ralf Müller and his team were awarded a research grant from the Project Management Institute (PMI) to investigate the balance between vertical and horizontal leadership in projects.
The international research team includes:
Dr. Ralf Müller, PM Concepts AB and Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.
Dr. Shankar Sankaran, Professor of Organziational Project Management, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
Dr. Nathalie Drouin, Professor, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Canada.
For results see Publications page.
Recognition Announcement
June 2015 - Prof Ralf Müller was awarded the PMI Research Achievement Award 2015.
The PMI Research Achievement Award recognizes and honors an individual whose work has significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge, and practices of project management through a published body of academic research.
Research Announcement
January 2013 - Prof Ralf Müller and his team has been awarded a competitive contract from the Project Management Institute (PMI) to conduct research on Organizational Enablers for Project Governance.
The project is focused on developing a framework for project governance in organizations of varying sizes, industries and geographies. The results will allow practitioners to adapt successful enablers and governance practices to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations. Moreover, the results will enable the expansion of the existing PMI foundational standards by adding organizational enablers for best practices in project governance. The international research team includes:
Dr. Ralf Müller, PM Concepts AB and Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.
Dr. Jingting Shao, Institute of Industrial Economics at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.
Dr Sofia Pemsel, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
First results will be published soon - see Publications page.
Award Announcement
October 24, 2012 - Ralf Müller from PM Concepts AB and BI Norwegian Business School was awarded the 2012 IPMA Research Award for his contribution to the research program on Project Management Offices (PMO).
Prof. Monique Aubry, Prof. Brian Hobbs, both University of Montreal, Canada and Prof. Ralf Müller, BI, Norway, are the IPMA Research Award Winners 2012 for their research program “The Project Management Office and its Contribution to Organisational Performance”. Understanding a complex and dynamic organisational phenomenon like Project Management Offices (PMO) takes time and needs researchers to tackle the research with cleverness. This research program was conducted between 2003 and 2011. Its focus was on Organisational Project Management in general and on Project Management Offices (PMO) specifically. PMOs are a good place to observe formalisation in managing multiple projects within an organisation.
Research Announcement
July 2012 - PM Concepts AB is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a competitive contract from the Project Management Institute to conduct research on Organizational Enablers for Organizational Project Management.
The international research team includes (in alphabetic order):
Dr. Monique Aubry, School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Dr. Nathalie Drouin, School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Dr. Kam Jugdev, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University, Canada
Dr. Ralf Müller, PM Concepts AB and Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Dr. Jingting Shao, Institute of Industrial Economics at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Award Announcement
October 12, 2009 - Ralf Müller was awarded the Project Management Journal™ Paper of the Year Award by Project Management Institute (PMI™) for his significant contribution to project management knowledge and was published in Project Management Journal™ published by PMI and Wiley in the previous year.
