We have had an exciting start to 2018. You may have seen the new PMI India website that we launched earlier in the year — www.pmi.org.in.The new avatar is in line with the PMI global brand and seeks to provide website visitors a consistent digital experience across the organization’s online assets. However, even as we have followed a global template to standardize the look and feel, we have introduced a lot more of localized content to make it highly relevant to our visitors. And there’s more. The people you see on the website are real-life project management practitioners — the passionate volunteers who are the core of PMI.

On 10 March, we hosted the fourth Project Management Regional Conference in Pune. The theme for the conference was Achieving Business Transformation Through Project Management. Nearly 400 delegates from a range of industry sectors attended the event. Look out for a special issue on the regional conference next month.

We have finalized the theme and venue for this year’s Project Management National Conference. This is going to be our 10th national conference and you can expect it to be on a grander scale than before. The conference theme for this milestone event fits the occasion – India in 2022 – Leading in a Globally Disruptive Market. Visit the conference site for more details.

We have published a white paper, India at 75: Opportunities & Challenges, in association with Forbes and CNBC TV18. The white paper covers the crux of the discussions and recommendations by industry leaders and policy-makers at a CEO roundtable series organized by PMI India in 2017. It touches upon the role of investment in nurturing fresh talent, the Make in India initiative, challenges in education, public-private partnerships, job creation, uninterrupted power supply, and more. You can download the white paper here.

In this issue of Manage India, we are featuring two recently released reports by PMI that show how project management will remain a critical capability around the world. The 2018 Pulse of the Profession® establishes that contrary to popular perceptions India fares well in a global ranking on monetary waste in projects. The second report, Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey reveals that survey respondents holding the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification earn higher median salaries than those without the PMP certification (23% higher on an average across the 37 countries surveyed). In India, PMP holders report median salaries that are 36% higher than those who do not hold the certification.