What Lessons We Can Learn from the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Crisis? Research Aim: Actually, the ongoing crisis could invite a welcome reality check. As it magnifies all those small issues and inefficiencies that we usually tolerate in our daily work, it can help recognize and understand what could be done better, and it could provide the nudge we need to start solving them, paving the way for tomorrow’s better, more efficient project management strategy. Remote project management issues… are no different from usual PM issues

How to Minimise the Impact of the COVID 19 Virus on Organisation? Research Aim: The coronavirus outbreak is a major concern for the health of potentially hundreds of thousands of people. It is also having an impact on the global economy with tourism, aviation, and hospitality the initially hardest hit industries. This research aims to identify the strategies that would enable us to minimise the impact of Covid-19 crisis on the efficiency of organisations.

Project Management and COVID-19: How to Manage an Extraordinary Crisis? Research Aim: While we’re still early days into the crisis, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that COVID-19 is a black swan event. You couldn’t have predicted it, nor could you have anticipated its impact. Conventional rules go out the window during such a crisis. There is no standard risk management playbook for dealing with a worldwide epidemic; you have to improvise and adapt on the fly. This research will discuss this extraordinary event, how to deal with it, and how to minimise its impact on your organization.

Project Management in the Times of COVID-19 Research Aim: Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic as notified by World Health Organization has had a significant impact on businesses the world over. More and more countries are being impacted every day with significant loss of life and business. This study will investigate as to how business organisations around the world have been proactive in minimising, and the COVID-19 impact for its customers, and at the same time helped its customers to run and deliver efficient services for their customers.

How the UK Government is Supporting Businesses with Project Management (PMO) and Governance During COVID-19 Research Aim: The main aim of the research will be focusing on identifying the strategies and the policies implemented by the UK government to support businesses with project management and governance during the Covid-19 crisis.

Should Project Risk Management Take the Pandemic into Consideration? Research Aim: Considering the world has endured pandemics before, this is, in theory, a known risk. But you likely did not include it in your project risk register, as it is very unlikely. In this case, the risk is unknown to you, because you and your team didn’t identify this risk. Whether we agree or not, no one in the world was able to accurately assess the impact of COVID-19 before it happened—and there is still uncertainty about its impact moving forward. Consequently this may not be part of project risk management. So what can we do?

COVID-19 Challenges and Response: How Procurement Underpins the World Bank’s Response to the Pandemic? Research Aim: The World Bank Group is committed to providing a fast, flexible response to the coronavirus pandemic. It is offering financing, policy advice and technical assistance in every region, across every area from healthcare and education to trade and technology. In this research study, we explore how different teams around the World Bank Group are responding to the challenges ahead.

Winning a New Project in the Times of Covid-19. Research Aim: COVID-19 might have derailed project plans for many organisations, but it’s worth considering what might still be possible remotely. There might be more to salvage than we think, and this is what this research study will explore.

Communication through Crisis: Keeping Project Management Effective in the Wake of COVID-19 Research Aim: The evolution of managing projects is taking a turn during this COVID-19 crisis. Instead of holding a conference call for a few locations where groups of people are in the same room, we are now facilitating sessions where everyone is in a separate location. Think about that for a minute. You are facilitating a meeting with ten people and no one is in the same room. Can we be successful in this new environment? This research aims to identify the communication tools and policies that would enable organisations to effectively respond to the challenges posed by the Covid-10 crisis.

Preventive Measures for Coronavirus (Covid-19). Research Aim: Employers and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals have a vital role to play in preventing the spread of coronavirus. In an effort to mitigate the spread of the disease, an increasing number of employers are making efforts to modify working patterns, including encouraging staff to work from home if they develop any of the symptoms.This research will investigate the preventive measures taken by business organisations to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.

Considerations for Business and Risk Managers During the Coronavirus/CoVid19 Outbreak Research Aim: The situation for businesses and risk managers is changing rapidly after the outbreak of Covid-19. Alongside the obvious risks to human health, we are also seeing serious disruption-related impacts on organisations that are arising from travel and opening restrictions, event cancellations, workforce issues, supply chain disruptions, financial and market volatility and cash flow problems. This research study will talk about the considerations for business and risk managers during the Coronavirus/CoVid19 outbreak.