Asia-Pacific Project Controls Small Business of the Year

What the judges are looking for

Judges are looking at small businesses to evidence the ways in which they operate as a Project Controls specialist organisation, either fully or in part support of other organisations.
The Australian Tax Office says that a small business entity is one that has an aggregated turnover of under $10 million whereas the Australian Bureau of Statistics says less than 20 employees. Either apply within this award category .

How are you structured and how are your strategies formulated? How has your client’s culture been impacted because of engagement? How have you developed your client’s processes and implemented assurance? What examples can you share of team formation, work planning and managing data and other information? What client training was required and what were the implications to/for the client of its implementation? What changes are evident as a result and what measurements are in place to monitor continued improvement?

NOTE: A key element of the submission will be client endorsement.

Each of the criteria is scored between 0 (no evidence at all) and 10 (perfect evidence) with each section being weighted accordingly (see %)

Entry Form

PEOPLE (35%)

Training: Up to 150 words

  • From a recent client engagement describe what client training was required.

  • What were the implications to/for the client of its implementation?

  • Explain how any issues were overcome throughout the process.

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Cultural issues: Up to 150 words

  • How would you describe the culture within the consultancy and how has this been evolved?

  • From a recent client engagement how has your client’s culture been impacted as a direct result?

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Leading innovation in P3M: Up to 100 words

  • Outline any key challenges you/they encountered managing the interfaces with other areas and disciplines that needed to be overcome.

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Career development and professionalism internally: Up to 250 words

  • Describe the development and training options that are available for staff within your consultancy.

  • Describe how these are structured/linked to any career progression requirements.

  • Outline the key milestones and why these have been selected.

  • How important do your staff find a professional approach to career development to be?

  • Explain how this professional approach was selected, implemented and then further developed so that it remains appropriate.

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ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN (25%)

Structure: Up to 200 words

  • How is your business structured?

  • How was your business strategy formulated?

  • What difficulties have been encountered in implementing and maintaining the strategy?

  • How have you overcome these challenges?

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Establishment of changes: Up to 150 words

  • How do you go around identifying, implementing and then establishing the correct changes for your clients?

  • How do you go around identifying, implementing and then establishing the correct changes for your clients?

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Diversity of project teams, recruitment and development: Up to 150 words

  • What diversity can be evidenced within your business in terms of creation of project teams, recruitment and business development?

  • What is the biggest single lesson learned from these in the past 12 months?

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Implementation of sponsor role: Up to 200 words

  • How is the role of sponsor appointed within your own business and/or your client’s?

  • How is the role of sponsor appointed within your own business and/or your client’s?

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PROCESSES (40%)

Project assurance: Up to 200 words

  • What tools & techniques do you utilise to develop?

  • Implement your client’s Project Controls assurance?

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Completeness of P3M processes: Up to 200 words

  • Describe the key processes utilised by your business and how these have been refined over time.

  • What formal ‘methodologies’ do you use if any, in support of these key processes as you provide your services around Project Controls?

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Documentation and access for client staff: Up to 200 words

  • Describe, from a recent client engagement, the overall documentation process and how client staff access was managed.

  • What issues were encountered and how were the stakeholders kept appraised?

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Results and benefit in the client businesses: Up to 200 words

  • Provide, as an attachment, client endorsement, on their headed paper, of your engagement, and signed off at a suitably senior level, explaining why the project was a success through their lens?  

  • Describe the results and the benefits for the customer/end user.

  • Describe the results and benefits for other stakeholders.

  • How did the successful completion of the project provide any benefit to wider society?

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Results and benefits in your own business: Up to 150 words

Focusing on a single specific recent client engagement:  

  • How did the project achieve what it set out to do for your business?  

  • Describe the results and benefits for the overall project team. What will the project team take away with them into the next project?  

  • What will the project team take away with them into the next project?

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APPLICATION SUMMARY

Describe why should this entry be considered for an award: Up to 100 words

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Please ensure to attach the following collaterals, which are compulsory for submitting your application.

Note: The below collaterals will not be used as part of the judging process. But instead, as part of the AV on Awards’ night should your entry be shortlisted

Also, please ensure that the file names for the logo and image are different from each other

 

 

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