OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2012. PM Expert, a member of ARMADA Group (MICEX-RTS: ARMD), has released the results of an annual survey entitled "Corporate Project Management Systems (CPMS) — the Experience of Russian Business in 2012". In terms of deployment, only 25% of the existing CPMS systems among respondents where phased in before 2008, whereas 75% have been deployed over the last three years. Most of the firms said that it took them less than two years to phase in CPMS.

PM Expert polled companies with experience in project management operating in the information technology, construction, manufacturing, fuel and energy and other sectors. Of all the companies surveyed, 21% had a headcount of over 5,000 employees, 15% from 1,000 to 5,000 workers, and 18% from 300 to 1,000 workers.

The reasons behind the decision to deploy CPMS, percentage of companies that mention this reason:

absence of up-to-date projects overviews — 68%

delays in the implementation of projects — 59%

inefficient distribution of resources among projects — 47%

customer dissatisfaction with project results — 38%

absence of clear distribution of responsibility among participants — 38%

major budget overruns — 32%

requirement of a supervisory authority — 6%

requirement of a counterparty — 3%