Growth and profitability appear to have dropped as top concerns in an annual survey of 214 global engineering CEOs, but the chiefs pushed mergers and acquisitions up the priority list in 2014, even as they debated the strategy's merits on Oct. 16 in New York City.
At the conference held by industry broker and management firm EFCG, the CEOs said leadership succession and recruitment also were bigger priorities this year and speculated on project impacts as oil prices continue to slide.