4. ASSESSMENT RESULTS
4.1 ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS
This study required considerably more time than originally planned – nearly two years. The
main reasons for this were that many companies did not see the true value in this research or
they were reluctant to share the details of their PM practices. Some were simply embarrassed
by their current PM practices and processes. Others believed they had something special that
they did not want to share with other companies.
As mentioned, a total of thirty-eight companies have participated in this study: fifteen
Engineering and Construction (E-C) companies, ten Information Management and Movement
(IMM) companies, ten Information Systems (IS) companies, and three Hi-Tech Manufacturing
(HTM) companies.
First, organizations were classified by their size. Forty-eight percent of the organizations
employed between 1-100 people and 52% of the companies had more than 100 employees.
Second, organizations were divided by years of experience in PM practices. Overall, the
answers ranged from 1 to 50 years, with averages of 15.4 years for E-C, 10.7 years for HTM,
8.0 years for IS, and 6.8 years for IMM. The average for all companies was 10.7 years.
Sixty-one percent of the organizations had fewer than 10 years of experience with PM. Clearly,
companies have only recently begun to implement PM and it may still be too early to recognize
all its benefits.