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Dear PMIHK members and Friends,

As a PM professional organization, we always support PM Research projects that are relevant to our profession and career development. Here is an excellent opportunity to make contribution to valuable PM research by involving in the following survey. I sincerely invite you to participate.

Best Regards,
Raymond Wong
President - PMIHK

Invitation to Participate in an Important PM Research Project

You are cordially invited to contribute your valuable experience and knowledge to an important research effort in the project management field. Managing Directors, CEOs, other Senior Executives, and Program and Project Managers around the world are urged to contribute to this research project co-sponsored by PMI and the ESC-Lille Business School (France.) The project is titled "Project Managers as Senior Executives?" and focuses on these questions:
Does experience as a program or project manager lead to senior executive positions? Are there differences in this regard within project-driven versus project dependent organizations in business, industry, and government?

The research will attempt to prove or disprove these three hypotheses:

In competing for CEO & other top jobs, Project Managers:
1. Have disadvantages compared with traditional functional managers
2. Need to become Program Managers and PMO directors to achieve top positions
3. Have experience similar to that required by successful CEOs and other senior executives; if so, this should be recognized more that it is at present.

For a more complete description of this research project please go to http://www.pmforum.org/

This research is being conducted with a three-pronged approach:
1. Interviews with CEOs and other Senior Executives in 10 countries.
2. On-line interview/surveys of Program and Project Managers in many countries and business, industrial, and governmental sectors.
3. Literature search and analysis.

To participate by completing the on-line interview/survey: Program and Project Managers in any country of the world are invited to go to http://executive-pm.com/ to complete the interview/survey, which will take most people about 1 hour to finish. If you wish to see the complete interview/survey prior to completing it on-line you can download it here:
http://www.pmforum.org/

Benefits to You: Participants will gain these benefits from completing the on-line interview/survey:
1.Insight into the pros and cons of this research project
2.Receipt of a copy of the resulting report
3. Ideas for further investigation by you
4.Credit for you and your PM organizations in the final report
5.Networking with our Project Team members
6.PMI PDU credit for the time spent.

Interviews with Managing Directors, CEOs and Other Senior Executives: You are also invited to participate in this research effort by arranging and conducting one or more interviews with Managing Directors, CEOs or other Senior Executives. To download the project Guidelines for Interviewing CEOs and Other Senior Executives please go to http://www.pmforum.org/

Senior executives reading this invitation are also encouraged to "self-interview" using these guidelines, and to invite their staff to participate in this project as appropriate to their positions.

Persons conducting these important executive interviews will gain the benefits listed above PLUS the important personal exposure that they will experience from the face-to-face time spent with the CEOs or Senior Executives whom they interview.

The cut-off date for the on-line survey and the face-to-face CEO/Senior Executive interviews is December 15, 2007. For further information on this research project please contact Prof. Jean-Pierre Debourse or Russ Archibald.

Best regards,
The PMI-ESC Lille Research Project Team