Project Controls Expo

Global Project Controls Small Buisness 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.

For this award category a small business entity is one that has an aggregated turnover of less than £10m AND/OR less than 50 staff”. Either apply within this award category.

How are you structured and how are your strategies formulated? How has your client’s culture been impacted through 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 %)

Saving your application:
It is possible to save the content of your entry by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on “SAVE”. This will give you a personal ID number that can be used to return to the site and continue your application at a later date.

Submitting your application:
You will be required to enter all of the fields before being able to submit your form once the “Submit” button is used, the form cannot be edited and the ID number will no longer be valid.

IMPORTANT: Please note that each section has a specific maximum number of words - however it is not compulsory to use the suggested maximum word count. Also, bear in mind that all items with an asterisk are mandatory.

ENTRY FORM

* First Name

* Last Name

* Job Title

* Company Name

Postal Address

Town/City

* Postcode

* Country

* Preferred Telephone Number

* Preferred Email

LinkedIn profile
(So that we can tag the individuals, organizations or teams responsible for the entry on the Awards’ related announcements)

Project start date

Project end date (or date of when a major phase was completed in the last 12 months)

* Do you have permission from your client to submit this entry?

PEOPLE (35%)

Training: Up to 200 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?
How has this evolved over time?
From a recent client engagement, how has their culture been impacted as a direct result?

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Leading innovation in P3M: Up to 200 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.
How are these 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 current 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?
What tools & techniques and innovative ways do you utilise to assist this?

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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 150 words

How is the role of sponsor appointed, within your own business and/or your client’s?
What one good practice tip would you share those others, outside of your business, could benefit from?

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PROCESSES (40%)

Project assurance: Up to 200 words

What tools & techniques do you utilise to develop and implement your client’s Project Controls assurance?
How are these monitored by the client, ongoing?

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Completeness of P3M processes: Up to 200 words

Describe the key processes utilised by your business.
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 200 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?

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APPLICATION SUMMARY

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

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Upload any supporting document
(You may upload 2 sides of A4 paper as supporting information. These will only be accepted in PDF format and must not exceed 8MB in total (no external links allowed). )

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

*Company logo
Attach a high-resolution logo of your organisation or your joint venture. (Only JPG and PNG are accepted. Min 3mb and Max size 10mb)

*Images
Attach a picture that represents work featured in your entry (e.g., pictures of the project/programme). (Only JPG and PNG are accepted. Min 3mb and Max size 10mb)

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Global Project Controls Small Buisness of the Year

What the judges are looking for

Saving your application:It is possible to save the content of your entry by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on “SAVE”. This will give you a personal ID number that can be used to return to the site and continue your application at a later date.

Submitting your application:You will be required to enter all of the fields before being able to submit your form once the “Submit” button is used, the form cannot be edited and the ID number will no longer be valid.

ENTRY FORM

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Saving your application:
It is possible to save the content of your entry by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on “SAVE”. This will give you a personal ID number that can be used to return to the site and continue your application at a later date.

Submitting your application:
You will be required to enter all of the fields before being able to submit your form once the “Submit” button is used, the form cannot be edited and the ID number will no longer be valid.