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How common or uncommon is the application of project management
in your company in the context of the description of the discipline?
Turnover (m ISK)
Very
common
Rather
common
Rather
uncommon
Very uncommon
Less or equal to 199 7,9% 22,8% 34,4% 34,9%
200-999 14,9% 28,1% 31,4% 25,6%
1000-5000 19,7% 33,3% 28,0% 18,9%
More than 5000 30,2% 42,5% 21,7% 5,7%

# of employees
Less than 10 6,9% 23,6% 34,4% 35,1%
11-49 16,1% 28,9% 35,6% 19,5%
50-149 13,7% 45,1% 24,5% 16,7%
More than 150 37,3% 44,6% 16,9% 1,2%

Occupation
Manufacturing 19,0% 31,7% 28,6% 20,6%
Service 19,7% 30,7% 24,6% 25,0%
Retail/wholesale 4,2% 18,5% 47,9% 29,4%
Fisheries/food
production
6,0% 32,0% 34,0% 28,0%

Industry
Consumer market 10,7% 25,4% 36,2% 27,7%
B2B market 19,5% 27,2% 27,2% 26,2%
Both 15,1% 37,4% 28,4% 19,1%

Area
Capital area 14,5% 32,1% 29,6% 23,7%
Rural area 10,8% 24,8% 33,8% 30,6%
Table 8. The total results of questions on the development of project management application.
The application of professional project management increases with the size of the organization. For
instance, only 30,5% of the smallest companies deploy project management, whereas 81,9% of the
largest companies do. Professional project management is most widely used within the manufacturing
and service sectors, however, least applied within the retail and wholesale sectors. Project management
is also significantly more frequently applied in the capital areas than the rural areas; 46,6% and 35,6%
respectively.
To gain a clearer picture, the participants who are of the opinion that the application of project
management will increase are added together. The results are decisive - particularly in the context of
the numbers of employees - as approximately 70% of the managers believe there will be an increase in
the application of professional project management within their sector. Figure 8 shows the increase of