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Question: Part I: Create a 5-7 page synthesis paper, in which you imagine you have been hired as an academic consultant for a company that has requested a high-level assessment to transform their traditional organization to a virtual workplace. The organization is a high-tech conglomerate with approximately 15,000 employees. Given your theoretical understanding of the transformation from a traditional organization to a virtual one, what are the questions you need to ask the client to transform this traditional workplace into a virtual workplace?

In your analysis:

• Consider organizational structure, organizational change, organizational culture, and communication technology, which may influence your choice of questions.

• Describe the features of a virtual organization and the continuum from simple to complex that describes virtual organizations.

• Include a description of how critical thinking can help an organization with a transformation and what theories support this critical thinking.

• Conclude with a reflection about how doctoral program knowledge influences the thinking of an academic consultant.

Support your arguments with at least seven scholarly sources from the literature that are relevant to the topic. Find sources that expand your thinking in a global context. Use in-text citations and a reference list cited in APA format. Use paraphrasing as much as possible, rather than direct quotations. Submit your paper to Turnitin and make corrections if needed.
Additional Paper Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.

• APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA style and formatting.

• Number of resources: Use a minimum of 7 references related to organizational and management theory.

• Structure: Include a title page, table of contents, abstract, and references page.

• Length of paper: 5-7 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the title page, table of contents, abstract, and references page in the page count.

• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 points.

Grading Criteria
Your assignment will be scored on the following criteria.

• Describe the features of a virtual organization.

• Explain which organizational management theories apply to the transformation of a traditional workplace to a virtual workplace.

• Describe how you would support critical thinking in the organization, to shift paradigms from the traditional workplace to the virtual

workplace.

• Evaluate which organizational change theories and practices would to apply to transforming an organization.

• Reflect upon how knowledge gained in a doctoral program influences an organization's transformation strategy.

• Demonstrate effective written communication using appropriate spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, as well as APA style and formatting, to communicate in a professional manner.
Please remember this PhD coursework

Part II: For this assignment, address the following components and discuss how to integrate them into the approach you defined. Your recommendations should be corroborated by evidence from the literature.

• Scope management for programs and portfolios.

• Detail the approach for managing time (schedule development), cost, and assuring quality for programs and portfolios. Identify the differences and provide an explanation for these differences.

• Provide some insight in human resource allocation approaches, given the constraints of skill scarcity and the need to balance operational requirements.

• What communications protocols are needed for program management and for portfolio management? How are they different from communications requirements for projects?

• For projects, any work that is not part of the scope for that project is not considered. This is different for programs and portfolios. Provide some detail that discusses these additional work elements that must be considered for program and portfolio management.

• Assess how an organization's well-being, competitive advantage, and return on investment are affected by portfolio management.