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This Guest paper was submitted for publication in July 2017.
It is copyright to Oliver F. Lehmann, ©2017.
Published here November 2017
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Differences in Demands on a Project Manager
Figure 3: Comparison of major elements between internal and customer projects
It is interesting to note that the percentage of customer projects is about
50% and robustly growing. The following diagram shows the distribution in a survey
that I made recently amongst 590 participants.
Figure 4: Sample distribution of internal projects versus customer projects
Project management as a business discipline must be one of the most valuable areas of economics in the world. It is therefore astonishing that our professional literature mostly ignores it. This is a serious shortcoming because managing customer projects are particularly difficult and entail a lot of risk. We should have a much better understanding of what makes them successful and what does not.
2. Lehmann, O.F. Customer Projects: What is the Future of the Business?, PM World Journal, 4 (2), February Available on-line from: http://pmworldjournal.net/article/customer-projects-future-business (Accessed: 1 June 2017).
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Project Business Management (PBM)
