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-(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Project Management Institute (PMI) today announced the top 50 influential projects of the past 18 months on its annual list of Most Influential Projects. Most Influential Projects highlights compelling projects around the world and across industries that achieved significant milestones and impacted our society. This year’s list follows PMI’s inaugural list released last year in honor of PMI’s 50th anniversary that showcased the 50 most amazing feats that projects have made possible over the previous five decades.
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The 2020 edition of the Most Influential Projects reflects how project professionals have found ingenious ways to keep initiatives moving forward in the face of unexpected obstacles associated with the global pandemic. In light of unprecedented challenges both business and society faced this year, some of the top-ranked projects include pandemic-related projects such as Iceland Contact Tracing, Learning Passport, and the U.S. Digital Response Launch. In addition to the main Top 50 list, PMI released 30 lists recognizing the Top 10 most influential projects in a variety of regions and industries. In total, the lists include more than 250 breakthrough efforts, highlighting progress made in long-standing innovative projects in transportation, renewable energy, architecture, technology, and more.
“We live in a world of change and uncertainty - and COVID-19 has accelerated these trends with major shocks and disruptions to the world of business and society itself overnight,” said Sunil Prashara, President and CEO of Project Management Institute. “Our 2020 list of Most Influential Projects should give us hope that we can meet these challenges and make even the boldest ideas into reality. Against the most challenging of circumstances over the past year, the leaders and teams behind these innovative projects made hard decisions and challenged conventional thinking in order to make an impact. As we rebuild and move forward from these challenging times, it is going to take the creativity, collaboration, discipline, and determination exhibited in each of these projects to reimagine a better path forward.”
The project management community itself—including experts, volunteers, academics, and industry leaders from across the globe—provided input and recommendations for this year’s list. The pool of project candidates, which numbered in the thousands, was then vetted by a special PMI thought leadership team. The final list represents PMI’s vision of how project work and the change makers behind them represent the creative spirit shaping how the world collectively reimagines a new future, makes ideas and dreams reality, and as a result change the world.
Honorees include momentous triumphs such as building temporary hospitals in a matter of days, developing ventilators at rapid speed, and reimagining annual events for a digital world; in addition to highly impactful, but lesser-known victories such as Kangaroo Island Recovery in Australia and Dogger Bank Wind Farm in England’s North Sea. The top-ranked project is the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a giant, global initiative tasked with identifying, accelerating and scaling potential COVID-19 treatments by coordinating research and development.
To view the complete list of projects and industry- and region-specific “Top 10” lists, visit pmi.org/most-influential-projects. The list is also featured in a special edition of the award-winning PM Network® magazine.
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