“China and India have very different cultures as well as different expectations. Chinese organizations understand the need to be dedicated to the long term, while Indian companies are more interested in the short-term goals and objectives and are less inclined to have a long-term vision. In regard to certification, not many Indian organizations support certification in the way that Chinese organizations do, so convincing companies of the value of project management is harder in India than in China.
What is also baffling is that IT accounts for a big part of the Indian economy, and IT project management is prolific. However, the Indians haven’t picked up on project management certification. Instead, they practice a lot of what’s known as accidental project management in which someone – an accidental project manager – with little or no formal training in the field ends up managing and overseeing the project, which is not an effective long-term solution.
The Project Management Institute (PMI), a US-based parent organization of Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, for its part, has invested the same amount of human capital and money in both the Chinese and Indian markets. Despite the fact that the PMI has been present as a wholly owned foreign incorporate entity in China and in India for relatively the same length of time, the rate of return on the institute’s investment in China is several times more than that in India. The PMI has a little under 30,000 certified practitioners in India, according to the institute’s statistics, but in China, that number is close to 150,000. ” – Excerpted from GlobalTimes article titled, “China outdoes India in project management“.
The article was compiled by Global Times reporter Li Qiaoyi based on an interview with Craig Killough, vice president of Organization Markets at Project Management Institute (PMI) in Beijing on Saturday on the sidelines of the PMI (China) Congress 2016. Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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