One round to go and the top six isn't secure as yet!

HKU's 'Smurf Village' retain first place even stretching their lead a little over GCU's 'Saltire' who remain in second. CURTIN's 'The Mighty Ducks' strengthen their place in top six by rising one place to third and 'Chongquing University CIOB Student Center' do even better by rising two places to fourth. HKPolyU's 'Tempe Construction' slips two paces to fifth and can't afford another slip in the next round. Back in the top six after an absence is University of Newcastle Australia's ' UoN Nobbys' who secure the sixth place rising from seventh. London Southbank's 'HK Global' slipped out f the top six. Deakin who nearly made it last year are lurking with last year's winners RMIT a bit further back. It's tight at the top and at within 5% below sixth place are all teams up to eleventh.

Looking at the complete list of teams the largest rise was of 8 places and the biggest drop was of 10 places. So there is considerable movement and if repeated with a top six team dropping and a lower one rising in the next and final round could produce some interesting changes.

At this stage it is important to get every decision sound, for example an imbalance on the spending side: if too much can drive up costs reduce profits damage overall performance; if too little can reduce outputs, delay projects, reduce cash inflows or bidding opportunities and reduce overall performance. It is critical to have disciplined decision making controlling all factors such as head office staffing, estimating effort, bids, project manager selection, project staffing, company capital, borrowings, investments, dividends, retained profits etc. They all matter. At the start the advice was to think like company directors, act like company directors, be company directors but no one said a director's job was easy. With one round to go strong leadership is required to make critical decisions those that are successful will be described as heroic and inspirational other decisions less successful might be described as foolhardy. The margin between these two outcomes is fine and that is the judgements that you face.

Period 9 results

Preliminary results, subject to change.
(Teams with a negative 100% have requested late submission or have been asked to resubmit)

Top 10

Team's improvement