Assignment

Objective: Select the company from the Fortune 500 list.

Prepare a 8-10 page Research paper on one of the following topics:

• Changing Organizational Priorities that change scope of projects
• Change Management impact on Projects and/or Change management impact on operations management
• Lack of accountability on project requirements
• Unrealistic deadlines for project completion
• Relationship of project to strategy of the business

Guidelines:

• Relate your paper to a specific project or initiative (this can be a past or future project at your organization, a past project from another company or a future project you wish to undertake). In review of all of the aspects of Project Management what one area do you believe will be your biggest challenge? Explain for the project chosen, explain, analyze, synthesize, and summarize the impact that the application of operations management will have. Provide examples of specific projects or operations failures for the chosen company, and relate how this conforms or deviates from effective project management standards/theory.

• Research Paper will be in APA format.
• Research papers will be 8-10 pages in content length (not including cover and reference page).
• Research paper will have a minimum of 10 quality peer-reviewed references.