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Three to play and three make hay
MTR's 'New Lines New Minds', Arup's 'They think its all Ova' and MTR's 'New Lines New Minds Enginetic' all hold station at the top as we enter the final three 'Early Years' periods of MERIT 2013.
Behind them, Amey's MDP has leapfrogged to 4th consolidating their place in the top six, while Atkins India's 'VIRTUS' take over the Atkins charge in 5th from 'NOVA' who have dropped a position to 8th.
Aurecon appear to be hedging their bets with their teams 'Aurecon Global' and 'Unicon' hovering in 6th and 7th, while there's a hint of a two-pronged attack from Mott MacDonalds's 'Mott MacDonald Maverick' and 'MM Money Makers' who are poised in 10th and 11th. Mean while Arup's 'The Ovaheads' have quitely move up from 13th to 9th.
'UTM' have dropped from a promising 10th to 15th, while 'AECOMANDERS' and 'STW asset creation's' surge in round 8 appears to have paused. Maybe they are gathering themselves for a final push.
The biggest jumpers this period are 'Amey Services Limited' with a 27% improvment that moves them from 70th to 46th, and 'Kierly the Best' whose improvment of 23% moves them up to 68th from 81st.
While the top three may be planning a trip to Loughborough for the Final, with still three rounds to go, no one is safe.
As the game now squeezes in two rounds each week, pressure on the decision making has increased. This is a time for clear analytical thinking not a time for wild decisions that if successful are described as courageous and if unsuccessful described as foolhardy. Success isn’t built on wild gambles but on carefully consider analysis.
Preliminary results, subject to change.
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MTR's strangle-hold weakens
MTR’s New Lines New Minds still hold firm in first place but Arup’s ‘They think its all Ova’ have speeded past MTR’s ‘New Lines New Minds Engenetic’ into second place. With Atkins HK’s ‘NOVA’ having slipped to seventh, AURECON’s ‘Unicon’ move up to fourth, with the biggest improvers at the top, MottMac’s ‘MM Money makers’ now claiming fifth place climbing over Amey’s ‘Amey MDP’. We’ve had an Atkins HK team in the last two finals at Loughborough so ‘NOVA’ need to tread careful, especially as AURECON’s ‘Aurecon Global’ are snapping at their heals.
Big improvers from 34th to 11th are AECOM’s ‘AEOCOManders’ overtaking their colleagues ‘AECOMeritocracy’ who have slipped to 16th. Other big gainers are SKM’s ‘Southern Konstruction Management’ and Severn Trent Water’s ‘STW asset creation’, whilst ’Uncharted territory’ from CIOB have slipped a little.
One other Atkins HK team ‘JC Bear’ has climbed from 78th to 60th, two more gains of this size would put them in the final.
So what we are seeing is that there is plenty of churn and significant movements in both directions. This time it took an improvement of about 20% to make a real gain. The six finalists are by no means settled.
The market is tightening, companies need to be the right size for their share of the market, managing the capital base to ensure the company has the right capacity is one of the key factors. But there again the correct marketing effort, winning contracts, attracting the best project managers, staffing projects and satisfying clients as well as paying a good dividend are all important too!
Preliminary results, subject to change.