Journal Organizational Strategy and Project Selection

Overview: Activities in this course are designed to actively involve you in various project management scenarios and help you apply the concepts covered in the

course to real-world situations. They provide practice in the following:

 Differentiating common organizational structures and how they affect project processes and activities

 Describing methods for conflict resolution

 Prioritizing projects

 Communicating/distributing project information to team members and stakeholders

 Evaluating whether a team is working effectively

Prompt: Organizational strategy is typically defined as a set of actions that managers take to outperform the organization’s competitors and achieve profitability

and sustainability. In considering the aforementioned, write a journal entry that describes aligning projects with business strategies.

The following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Describe aligning projects with business strategies in order to achieve profitability.

II. Describe aligning projects with business strategies in order to achieve sustainability.

Guidelines for Submission: Your 2- to 3-paragraph journal entry should include any sources cited in APA format. Review this tutorial for information on creating

a Blackboard journal entry. Journals are private between the student and the instructor.