What is "ipm"

IPM may refer to:

Business

• Indian Pharmaceutical Market
• IPM Informed Portfolio Management, an investment manager
• Integrated Project Management, a Capability Maturity Model Integration process area
• International Project Management
• Institute of Personnel Management, now the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Computing

• Iteration Planning Meeting, a part of Extreme programming practices in agile software development
• IPM (software), Interactive Policy Making, an online opinion poll management system
• InfoPrint Manager, IBM Advanced Function Presentation software
• Integral Projection Model, a technique used in computer vision
• Interior point method in mathematical programming (optimization)
• In-Product Marketing, an online delivery of advertising into installed software product

Science, technology and manufacturing

• International prototype metre, a former standard to define the length of a metre
• Inch per minute, a unit of measurement sometimes used in machining, equal to 0.0254 metres per minute
• Independent-Particle Model, Nuclear structure of the atomic nucleus
• Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, a research institute in Tehran, Iran
• Interior permanent magnet, denotes rotor magnets that are embedded below a synchronous motor rotor's surface
• Integrated pest management, a pest control strategy in agriculture
• International Partnership for Microbicides, a non-profit partnership established to accelerate the development of a safe and effective microbicide
• Interplanetary medium, the material which fills the solar system
• Isopropyl myristate, a chemical used in cosmetics and perfumes

Medicine

• Intranodal palisaded myofibroblastoma, a rare primary lymph node tumour

Miscellenaeous

• Immediate Past Master, the previous Worshipful Master of a masonic lodge who remains a lodge officer in the following year
• Independence Party of Minnesota, a political party in Minnesota, United States
• Indian Police Medal, a medal for gallantry and distinguished service
• iPM, a spin-off program of BBC Radio 4's PM
• Information Processing and Management, academic journal

The Interactive Policy Making, or IPM, is an online opinion poll management system launched in 2001, which is used to gather the opinion of European Union citizens and entreprises regarding policy development The software is part of the Interactive Policy Making Initiative and is made of various modules which assist in the creation of such questionnaires - including a creation, translation, test, launch and analysis module.