UC Contemporary Management Projects and Current Operations Essay

PROJECT VS. OPERATIONS EXERCISE
1)
Brief Essay: Answer the questions below on operations and projects. Type you answers
into this template. Essay should be a minimum of 300 words and rely substantively on the
weekly readings (Kloppenborg textbook). Sources must be properly and fully cited (Author,
Year, Page Number) and listed properly in a reference section.
What is a project? What are ongoing operations? How are they alike? How are they different?
PROJECT VS. OPERATIONS EXERCISE
2)
Find four (4) news stories in your local or regional newspaper (two of each) that discuss
either a project or ongoing operations. These need to be news articles and not journal articles.
The articles must not be older than 2015. Provide the requested information below for each of
the articles. The Brief Description needs to provide enough information and facts about the
project or operations to complete the Analysis section on Why it is a project or on-going
operation. For this section you should analyze the project or operations versus the 4-element text
that Kloppenborg provides within the definition of a project. Use this comparative analysis to
demonstrate how the projects identified specifically fits the 4 elements of the definition or how
the operations do not fit the definition.
*You will be utilizing one of the Projects identified for Problem Sets throughout the rest of the
semester. I suggest that for at least one of the Projects identified you select a project that is
simple but has significant information available on-line about the project. The best projects
for this are usually local projects such as construction projects, economic development
projects of cities, or other localized projects where the scope of the project is easily identifiable
and information is readily available. *
There is no word minimum but it is expected each of the sections will provide the information
needed to provide an adequate comparative analysis. These sections need to be completed in
narrative format and not as lists or charts.
Title Project Article #1:
City:
News source (APA reference):
Web address:
Brief Description:
Why is this a Project?
Title Project Article #2
City:
News source (APA reference):
Web address:
Brief Description:
Why is this a Project?
Title Operations Article #1
City:
News source (APA reference):
Web address:
Brief description:
Why is this Operations?
Operations Article #2
City:
News source (APA reference):
Web address:
PROJECT VS. OPERATIONS EXERCISE
Brief description:
Why is this Operations?

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