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• The project work is based on non-routine tasks.
• The project has a minimum duration of four weeks.
• The project has at least three participants.
Based on this definition of projects, respondents were asked to indicate the proportion of project work,
as a percentage of the overall work worked within the organization, in the entire organization. This
resulted in figures indicating projectification on the company level. The share of project work of the
individual economic sectors (each containing different sub-sectors) was calculated as a mean value.
Finally, the share of project work on the level of the entire economy was obtained by adding up the
sectors’ shares of project work, weighted by the sector’s share on total GVA (see Wald et al., 2015 for
more details).
Benchmark Study: Current and possible future value project work in Iceland
The benchmark study conducted was used to measure and compare the metrics against the GVA
baseline study and run on a regular basis (quarterly) to evaluate how the perception of participant
changes over time. The study was designed to verify the alleged importance of project management
within organizations by asking a larger sample of participants that are more homogeneous than the
sample of participants in the GVA study, in many cases, managers and leaders who passed on the
requests for economic figures to subordinates. As the benchmark study was solely conducted among
people in high management positions in their companies these two studies will complement each other
and give clear indication of the present and future state of project management in Iceland. The
definition above of what constitutes a “project” was introduced to the participants, and the sample of
1,356 participants were asked about (1) the application of project management within their organization
in compliance of the definition of projects by Wald et al. (2015), and (2) the what they saw as a likely
trend in the application of project management in the near future (12 months) within their organization.
The survey was embedded in a management survey that is done quarterly by a survey company named
Market and Media Research (MMR). Compared to the GVA the method was simpler, it included more
participants, and was less costly. The survey measured, among the participant, the overall perception of
project management and the application of it as a discipline. As the management survey is ongoing, and
conducted four times a year, valuable information on the development of the PPP profession can be
observed over time.
The NACE (Nomenclature of Economic Activities) economic sectors classification was used as a basis to
ensure international comparability (see figure 1) but it is the European statistical classification of
economic activities. Statistics produced on the basis of NACE are comparable at European level and, in
general, at world level through the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC).
Despite industrial structural differences between Iceland and Germany, the same 10 industrial sectors
were used. For the sake of simplifying the study, four sectors - construction, real estate, corporate
service providers and agriculture - were excluded from the survey but their impact estimated by experts
instead. The same weights were used in Iceland as in Germany.