Now & Z/Yen - November 2005
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Now & Z/Yen - November 2005
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited November 2005 High Praise Indeed
And I thought Paribas was a Watering Hole in the French Capital Z/Yen has signed up its 31st bank, BNP Paribas, for its range of market intelligence studies. Operational Performance interviews for the 2005 studies are almost complete. This year’s total will be 21 countries and over 200 interviews. Close Run Thing Z/Yen's ever shrinking running team (Jeremy Smith, Mark Guerriero and Francesca Birch) was out again for the Nike London 10K run on the 16th October. In a closely fought contest, Mark, sprinted past Jeremy to be the first Z/Yenite home. “Revenge will be forthcoming”, says Jeremy, frothing at the mouth. Independent Professor
In a bind!
Short Dull Article Competition The above article could win an award for being the dullest short article ever written in the entire history of humanity. Or could it? If you have ever seen a less interesting piece (and nevertheless kept it or remembered what it is), please let Now and Z/Yen know about it. The winning entry will be honoured with a mention in Now and Z/Yen, plus the winner will receive a small (but memorable) prize. Josie’s going up in the world Josie Rochford, Z/Yen’s most tenacious summer
intern (2003 and well beyond summer 2005) will sadly be leaving shortly. She has
a message and a request for us all: Prince(ss) of projects…
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We
reported in the last issue of
Now
that Michael has gone a bit academic (well at least six nights a year), he seems
to want his Independents (sic). His inaugural lecture at Gresham College on 19
September, "
The
great excitement at St. Helen's Place this month has been the arrival of a new
electronic
Mary
O’Callaghan has been keeping busy running a multitude of client projects,
including the Highly Commended Charityshare venture. Despite all the calls on
her time, Mary has demonstrated her project management skills by fitting in the
time to study for and achieve the PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification. PRINCE2
sets the standard for project management in the UK, and is widely used in public
and private sector for all kinds of project. Mary’s clients, including the
NSPCC, GSCC, BEN and Charityshare, are already reaping the benefit of her
PRINCE2 skills. Mary is taking a couple of months to recover from sitting four
hours of exams in one day, before moving on to the wider qualification of
Managing Successful Programmes – not as exciting as climbing Kilimanjaro, but at
least without the altitude sickness!