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Tuning your RoI in Project Management

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Newsletter 1, 2010

Ralf Müller promoted to professor at Umeå School of Business

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Curriculum Vitae

Prof Dr Ralf Müller

Professor Müller is an international lecturer, researcher, author, and business consultant. He is the founder and managing director of PM Concepts, a Sweden based management consultancy, which advices larger enterprises in project, program and portfolio management. In parallel he is Professor of Business Administration at Umeå University, Sweden; Professor of Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School and Adjunct Professor at SKEMA Business School (former ESC Lille), France, as well as visiting faculty member at Tiasnimbas Business School / Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He lectures at Master’s and doctoral level and researches in project, program and portfolio management, project governance and research methodologies. He also supervises Masters’ and doctoral theses work. .

His research focuses on project, program and portfolio management improvement and governance from an organization-wide perspective. In 2004, 2005 and 2008 the Project Management Institute (PMI) awarded him research grants for studies on program and portfolio management, leadership, and governance of Project Management Offices (PMOs). In 2009 the Norwegian Center of Project Management awarded him a research grant for a study on governance and ethics, which will be executed in collaboration with several Universities worldwide. The results of these and several other research studies appeared in more than 120 publications, including seven books, 11 book chapters, more than 25 articles in refereed journals, and many conference proceedings or other publications. He is frequent speaker at global research conferences such as IRNOP and the PMI Research Conference, as well as practitioner conferences, such as those of NASA, PMI and IPMA. .

Dr Müller worked with practitioners and academics in 47 different countries for the improvement of project management in large organizations. Projects he worked on span from small up to USD 4.7 billion. In these large projects he worked closely with AT&T and Bell Laboratories, USA.

At NCR Corporation’s Teradata Business Unit he was the worldwide Director of Project Management. There he developed a variety of project management related training programs, including online-courses. He also co-developed a portfolio reporting system, a project manager certification program, and the strategic framework for project management improvement at NCR Teradata. In recent years he delivered training and consulting to organizations migrating from process-orientation to project-orientation, or implementing program and portfolio management, as well as those setting up Project Management Offices (PMOs).

Ralf Müller received a Docent degree (habilitation) from Umeå University, Sweden, and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from Henley Management College / Brunel University, UK. He also holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK; as well as Master Certificates in Global Business Management and in Project Management from George Washington University, USA. Furthermore he holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI, USA.

Awards he received include the 2011 Emerald Publishing Best Reviewer Award, and the 2011 AACSB Best Paper in Operations Management Award of the Academy of Business Research Conference, the 2010 Emerald Outstanding Paper Award, the 2010 Highly Commended Award Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, the 2009 Project Management Journal Best Paper of the Year Award, the IRNOP 2009 Best Conference Paper Award, the Emerald 2009 Outstanding Reviewer Award. Furhermore the Nimbas University 2005 Best Supervisor Award. His doctoral thesis was ranked among the top 10 best doctoral theses in business and management in 2003.

Dr Müller is a member of the Editorial Review Board of seven academic journals. He is a co-founder of PMI's Frankfurt, Munich and Copenhagen Chapters, is listed in the 2002 issue of the 'International Who's Who of Information Technology', and a contributor to the PMI Standards for Organizational Project Management Maturity (OPM3), Program Management, as well as and Portfolio Management. He is a member of the Academy of Management, PMI (Project Management Institute), IPMA (International Project Management Association) and the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, which is based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, and seeks to catalyze research on best practices for developing emotional competence, and the impact of emotional intelligence in leadership and organizations.

Malmö, Sweden, December 2011