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Z/Yen applies risk/reward management internationally in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, structured as follows:
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¨ financial services - investment banking, retail banking, insurance, exchanges, specialist risk transfer |
¨ strategy - corporate, markets, products, services, human resources |
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¨ technology - R&D, bio, information, nano, aerospace, materials, health, medicine, communications |
¨ intelligence – competitive analysis, market research, profiling, benchmarking |
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¨ not-for-profit - charities, trades unions, membership organisations |
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systems - management, sales & marketing,
financial, motivational, human, technical |
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¨ commercial - business-to-business services, lawyers, accountants, media, logistics, manufacturing |
¨ people - project managers, expertise-on-demand, training, coaching, mentoring, non-executive directors |
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¨ public sector - agencies, departments, local government |
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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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