General Project Management Body of Knowledge

Since the last decade, project management has become an important weapon for all organizations to compete in the world arena and both enterprises and governments have been promoting project management as their top priority. The key driver of this trend is the change in competitive landscape that forces modern enterprises to shift their focus from local competition to global competition. Since then, enterprises no longer produce homogenous products, but focus instead on product and service innovation to fight for their market share and leapfrog the competition, and each innovative attempt adopted by enterprises becomes a project. This means that in the future, enterprises around the world must adapt to changes in the environment, adjust their corporate structures, and strengthen their competitive advantages, in order to survive, evolve and operate sustainably. Simply speaking, the process that an organization evolves from one state to the next can be facilitated using project management techniques.

Chiu-Chi Wei obtained Ph.D. in Engineering Management from University of Missouri - Rolla, USA, in1992. He is now a Professor of Industrial Management at Chung-Hua University, Taiwan. Professor Wei introduced both project management certificates of PMP and IPMA to Taiwan in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He was the founder and Secretary General of Taiwan Project Management Association and the Representative of Taiwan to IPMA. Professor Wei is now the President of American project Management Association.