Corporate and Project Management Research Institute

History

In the past years the leadership of the Russian Federation and of large companies has been paying more and more attention to the control of investments in large-scale projects, trying to improve the efficiency of these investments and reduce by maximum the risk of inappropriate expenditures. In these conditions the development of competencies and the formation of expert evaluation in the field of project and program management has become especially relevant, be it in state or commercial bodies. However, the majority of existing control mechanisms allows us to evaluate only the final result, depriving the regulatory bodies of the possibility to influence the development of the project.

The Corporate and Project Management Research Institute was established with the aim of improving project management efficiency in Russia.

The main goal of the Institute is the formation of a Russian national school and practices of corporate and project management through the consolidation of unique Soviet experience, its integration with the best international practices and their adaptation to the modern requirements and realities.

In the Institute's work, instruments and methodologies of improving project management efficiency are used, including monitoring systems for large-scale projects and the efficiency assessment of their management mechanisms, a system of assessing planned figures and actual data of auditable milestones, a system of risk management and problem situations management.

We are confident that the knowledge and experience of CPMI experts will help improve the efficiency in large-scale projects and programs management systems, allowing not only to correctly plan the budgets, but to also employ well-timed measures in minimizing risks, as well as to make allowances to achieve initial objectives.

E. Dzhuraev, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CPMI.

Work

The Corporate and Project Management Research Institute (CPMI) was established with the aim of improving the efficiency of corporate and project management in Russia.

The main goal of the Institute is the creation of a Russian national school and practices of corporate and project management by way of consolidating unique Soviet experience, integrating it with the best international practices and adapting to modern requirements and realities.

The mission is the creation of a modern Russian school of corporate and project management.

The aims:

The widest possible major distribution of accumulated knowledge and Russian experience in project management;

An education in the culture of corporate and project management at all levels of state and business management;

An improvement in the efficiency of realization of large-scale Russian programs and projects.

The CPMI team includes experts with ten to forty years of professional experience. These are the specialists who built the Baikal-Amur Mainline, the Olympic Sochi, who participated in the construction of sites for such companies as Gazprom, Sberbank, Rosneft and others.

Expert Councils

The main objective of the Boards of Experts is to identify relevant problems and prepare solutions for their liquidation, or for the minimization of risks. Moreover, the CPMI Boards of Experts will participate in the development of methodological documents, spelling out project, corporate management and solutions in topical areas. The Boards of Experts include not only CPMI employees, but also acknowledged specialists in the professional knowledge relating to the topical areas.

– Expert Council on project management – Expert Council on communications systems – Expert Council on price formation in the construction – Expert Council on investments – Expert Council on the development of relations with China and other countries of the East – Expert Council on innovations – Expert Council on PPP projects’ management – Expert Council on payment systems

The Center for PPP Project Management

Nowadays it is very important to develop the competence and to improve the legislation in the course of PPP projects implementation.

Today, however, we see the following issues in PPP projects realization:

underdeveloped legislative framework for cooperation in the field of PPP;

lack of mechanisms to stimulate growth in the number of PPP projects;

absence of professional community organizations which can play role as moderator between government and business;

absence of competence in managing the implementation of the PPP projects;

absence of regulatory framework for PPP project management, including in the field of:

project planning;

approaches unity during the drafting;

management tools to implement the projects;

risk management for the projects;

lack of quality assurance at all stages and phases of the project implementations.

What prevents to improve the implementation of PPP projects today?

The stage of initiation (search activity for investment) takes the main place in the implementation of PPP projects. But usually the main problems in the project arise at the stage of implementation and maintenance. That is why the issue of management and organization of the PPP project is so important. The result will depend directly upon the involvement and decision-making by both parties (the government and business partner).

In order to study the problems of the PPP projects and to develop the methodological recommendations and solutions of the PPP Project Management Centre was founded in the CPMI. Currently, the Centre has the following targets:

create a regulatory framework for the PPP project management and its application in practice;

develop of competence in the PPP project management;

form the tools to stimulate the social responsibility in the course of the PPP projects implementations.

The Centre provides commercial support for organizations involved in the PPP projects. Center’s specialists will help to solve the problem of the PPP project management, including:

development of the methodology for the PPP project management;

building the system of the PPP project management;

development the tools for the PPP project management;

creation the guidelines for managing of the PPP projects;

development the methodological recommendations to transfer the experience in managing of the PPP projects and others.

The Innovative Support Centre

The main tasks of the Innovative Support Centre:

collect and consolidate the information available to the public about innovative ideas and implemented innovative solutions in the field of economy, management and industry of the Russian Federation;

conduct the initial expert examination of proposed innovative ideas and innovations;

support innovative solutions.

The main functions of the Centre:

Concerning collection and consolidation of the information:

monitoring of information resources for innovative ideas and innovations;

formation of a consolidated register of promising innovative ideas and innovations;

classification of innovative ideas and innovations from the registry according to work complementation stages and to possible areas of their implementation;

publication of the consolidated register of classified innovative ideas and promising designs on the CPMI’s site.

Concerning initial expert examination:

conduct initial technological expertise;

conduct initial economic efficiency assessment;

conduct initial assessment of influence of innovative ideas and innovations on the environment and the social sphere.

Concerning support of the innovative solutions:

counseling the innovators how to implement innovative solutions;

provide information on the innovative solutions to the third parties concerned through forums, conferences or open communication;

form the business plans drafts for the implementation of innovative ideas and innovations.

The Centre activity is controlled and coordinated by the Innovation Expert Council of the CPMI.

The Center for Underwater Fiberoptic Transmission Lines Development (Center for UFTL Development)

Background:

lack of consolidated information on the management and implementation of UFOCL projects;

a small number of national implemented projects in comparison with international experience;

fast-growing trends in the telecommunications industry;

exclusivity and complexity of project implementation.

The targets:

collection and consolidation of domestic and international experience in designing and construction of the UFOCL;

popularization of accumulated knowledge and experience in projects of the UFOCL construction in Russia and foreign countries;

development of the designing methodology, construction and management of the UFOCL projects;

development of the guidelines for the implementation of projects to construct the UFOCL.

The tasks:

provision of consulting services for the implementation of the UFOCL projects in Russia from the design stage till the construction completion;

provision of consulting services in the execution of the work on obtaining approval documents for researchers and the UFOCL construction;

consulting support for implementation of the projects on the UFOCL construction.

Start of the UFOCL project on the construction:

pre-project documentation development (cameral project);

development the sections “OVOS” and “Schedule of measures”;

conducting regional public hearings on the progress of marine researches;

obtaining a positive findings of the Main Environmental Expertise of Materials to conduct marine researches along the projected UFOCL route;

conducting the marine and environmental researches along the projected UFOCL route;

the project documentation development for the construction of the projected UFOCL;

the working documentation development for the construction of the projected UFOCL;

development the section on the environmental conservation during the UFOCL construction;

calculation and coordination of damage to the environment caused by the UFOC construction;

conducting regional public hearings on the progress of the construction and installation works;

obtaining the positive findings of the Main Environmental Expertise of Materials to the UFOC construction;

obtaining a positive findings of “FAA RF State Expert Evaluation Department”;

obtaining the UFOC construction permission.

The Experts Library

One of the main tasks of the CPMI is the widest possible dissemination of knowledge and national experience in the project management. In order to perform this task the electronic Expert Library has been founded at the Institute; the documents related to corporate and project management are being collected there:

methodological solutions in the project management;

historical materials;

the experts’ views in different subject areas;

the Institute employees’ publications and works, and other things.

Links

Official company website

CPMI consultations in the Financial Director

Experts library

CPMI on Facebook