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Z/Yen helps organisations make better choices.  Our name combines Zen and Yen - “a philosophical desire to succeed” - in a ratio, recognising that all decisions are trade-offs.  Z/Yen’s mission is to be the foremost risk/reward management firm.  Risk/reward management underpins Z/Yen’s belief that good decisions must:  

  • enhance reward - decisions on opportunities and new strategies;

  • control risk - decisions about eliminating, avoiding, mitigating or pooling risks;

  • reduce volatility - decisions that increase certainty or consistency of performance.

Z/Yen applies risk/reward management internationally in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, structured as follows:

Sectors Served   Services Provided (across all sectors)  

¨       financial services - investment banking, retail banking, insurance, exchanges, specialist risk transfer  

¨       strategy - corporate, markets, products, services, human resources  

¨       technology - R&D, bio, information, nano, aerospace, materials, health, medicine, communications  

¨       intelligence – competitive analysis, market research, profiling, benchmarking  

¨       not-for-profit - charities, trades unions, membership organisations  

¨       systems - management, sales & marketing, financial, motivational, human, technical

¨       commercial - business-to-business services, lawyers, accountants, media, logistics, manufacturing  

¨       people - project managers, expertise-on-demand, training, coaching, mentoring, non-executive directors  

¨       public sector - agencies, departments, local government  

¨       organisation - structure, governance, stakeholder inclusion, community building, outsourcing, risk

Z/Yen manages projects or provides people to deliver timely, quality work for clients in demanding situations. Our clients consider us a research and think-tank resource that implements its recommendations.

  • publishing the highly acclaimed humorous management novel Clean Business Cuisine;

  • establishing industry standard cost and efficiency benchmarking for back-office and IT across the treasury and capital markets;

  • developing the world-leading risk/reward prediction engine, PropheZy, launched in 2002;

  • providing leading research on issues of governance, evidence of worth, community-building, finance and information technology for not-for-profit organisations;

  • winning a Department of Trade and Industry Foresight Challenge Award in 1996 for the £1.9 million Financial Laboratory Club research into visualizing financial risk;

  • commercialising numerous technologies from university spin-outs or start-ups through to IT companies, health firms or government agencies; creating tremendous value for clients.

Z/Yen’s slogan is “zest for enlightenment”, embodied in five distinguishing principles: investing in clients, investing in partners, improving ourselves, sharing rewards and keeping our sense of humour.  Z/Yen’s strategy is based on four activities:

  • delivering superior work, undertaking ground-breaking projects where others fear to tread;

  • developing a wider community of firms and individuals that support our clients;

  • enhancing risk/reward thinking;

  • investing in ventures where Z/Yen’s network and skills can add value.

Z/Yen has built its practice around a core of high-powered project managers, supported by experienced technical specialists so that clients get expertise they need, rather than just resources available.  The firm is headquartered in London, but Z/Yen is committed to the ‘virtual office’ concept and is an intense user of technology in order to improve flexibility and benefit staff.  Z/Yen has 25 full-time-equivalent staff and over 300 associate experts.  Z/Yen people share significantly in the benefits of success and Z/Yen seeks to develop a supportive environment in which professionals from a variety of disciplines can flourish.

 


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