PM Network magazine is the monthly publication of the Project Management Institute, or PMI.  Its circulation is somewhere above 320,000 – and rising.

This month, they published their Fourth Annual “Trend Report”.  These trends, says the article, are “forcing companies to look at projects in radical and revolutionary ways”.  In fact, the subtitle of the cover story is, “The trends jolting the new business landscape”.

There are 5 trends identified and two of them fall squarely right here – at the intersection of green and project management.

The trends are:

• The New New World Order
• Practical Innovation
• Truly Sustainable Sustainability
• Complete Connectivity
• Perpetually Lean

Strangely, zebra boots are missing from the list.  But we got your attention, so they served their purpose.

The two trends we’re talking about as being here at EarthPM, you can probably guess, are Truly Sustainable Sustainability and Perpetually Lean.  In fact, these are two major threaded themes of our upcoming book.

In fact, really these two trends summarize EarthPM’s First Assertion: “A project run with green intent is the right thing to do, but it also will help the project team do things right.”

One could also argue that the other three are aspects of green PM, and in fact themes from the areas of the flattened world, innovation in process and product, and improvements in the way project teams can connect also are woven into our book.

So, we feel a sort of affirmation in seeing that our book has, for the lack of other words, a certain trendiness to it.  We’re honest, we don’t mind being a little trendy.

Have a look at the new PM Network magazine, linked here.