Now & Z/Yen - May 2008
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Now & Z/Yen - May 2008
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Z/Yen is delighted to announce that it has been
awarded a three year contract to undertake the Charities Consortium IT
Directors’ Group (known as CCITDG – and try saying that after a couple of G&Ts)
benchmarking. This venture is bursting with bright ideas, only some of
which originate from Z/Yen. All members of the CCITDG (currently 87) will
participate in the core benchmarking as a benefit and requirement of membership.
In true Z/Yen style, the benchmarking will be dynamic; i.e. participants will be
able to choose when they wish to participate. There will be several
optional modules for members to participate in if they wish. It’s WiZe To SpecialiZe In case you missed it, SpecialiZm has undergone
something of a rebranding and relaunch since its previous incarnation as Z/Yen’s
expert resource division. Speechless!
‘Indices Going Up’
Payroll Giving and the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards Z/Yen has been selected to continue running the
Payroll Giving Centre, assuming a wider role. Tina Steele (formerly of BEN
and the Institute of Fundraising; otherwise known as “Mrs Payroll Giving”) has
finally hung up her Payroll Giving hat after approx 20 years, and we wish her
well in her retirement. Linda Cook and Sonya Raymond will continue the
Z/Yen work, with Mary O’Callaghan assuming the project management
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One of
the new ideas is to provide an IT benchmarking framework that would be useful to
organisations other than charities and thus to enable the charities to compare
themselves with other organisations that might be relevant to them. For
example, we are already in discussions with the British Computer Society, hoping
to widen out the environmental module to allow participation from many sectors.
Mary O’Callaghan is leading the work along with Ian Harris, but several other
members of the Z/Yen team are likely to be involved as the venture unfolds.
Please contact Mary or Ian if you think you or your organisation has something
to offer this innovative and exciting venture.
It's
rare to find our in-house professor lost for words, but… Michael has scheduled a
fun lecture, "It’s A Mad, Bad, Wonderful World: A Celebration Of Commercial
Diversity" on Monday, 17 November 2008, 18:00, at Barnard’s Inn Hall in Gresham
College. The billing is, "In some countries people haggle incessantly, in
others to haggle is insulting. In many cities transportation costs are
based on time rather than distance. On Alderney house buyers and house
sellers both put up a deposit. This lecture examines how people use
different commercial structures around the world and what we might learn from
their strange ways." 
Our
innovative approach to creating indices continues to go from strength to
strength. The City of London have re-appointed Z/Yen to continue running
the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) for the next two years – GFCI 4 is to
be published in September 2008. 
It is a
fitting tribute to Tina that, after her years of toil, her brainchild “The
National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards” event has become an annual feature in
the charity calendar.