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Assignment Task: Critical Thinking Assignment
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.
Option #1: The Importance of Procurement
In a two- to three-page paper (cover page and reference page are required and not included in the page count), address the following:
1. Analyze the importance of procurement in the project management process.
2. What are the main considerations for program, portfolio, and project management?
3. Discuss whether procurement can be eliminated or replaced by alternate organizational activities.
4. Discuss what unintended consequences occur in the project management process when procurement is poorly executed.
5. Discuss how leadership (include project managers) addressed these procurement challenges.
Be sure to properly organize your writing and include an introduction, headings/subheadings for the body of your work associated with each of the numbered items above, your analysis/suggestion, and a conclusion.
Option #2: Problems and Solutions
White, G. R. T., Parfitt, S., Lee, C., & Mason, J. R. (2016). Challenges to the Development of Strategic Procurement: A Meta-Analysis of Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors (Links to an external site.). Strategic Change, 25(3), 285-298. This is one of your recommended readings for this week.
In a two- to three-page paper (cover page and reference page are required and not included in the page count):
1. Write a summary of this study and its findings.
2. Analyze and discuss the challenges to strategic procurement.
3. Discuss how leadership (include project managers) addressed these procurement challenges
4. What are the main considerations for program, portfolio, and project management?
Be sure to properly organize your writing and include an introduction, headings/subheadings for the body of your work, your analysis/suggestion, and a conclusion.