Now & Z/Yen - February 2002
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Now & Z/Yen - February 2002
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited February 2002 Z/Yen Gets a New Aspect on Intelligence
On 1 January we acquired Aspect Consulting from The
Argyll Consultancies PLC (nothing to do with our accounting year-start!).
It may be no less than our first acquisition from a listed company but,
in true-to-Z/Yen-form, Aspect is just three individuals who punch well above
their weight. Stephen Martin, Laura
Wright and Francesca Birch now form “Z/Yen Aspect”.
Z/Yen Aspect is billed as “the
Intelligence Division” of Z/Yen, although there was significant debate about
just “an Intelligent…”, “the
Intelligent…”, etc.
Stop
the Presses…Please! Not Another
Z/Yen Book(let)!
We are delighted to announce that the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators has published Z/Yen’s “Information Technology Governance in the Not-for-Profit Sector” as a Best Practice Guide. Z/Yen also carried a “Voluntary Sector Information Technology Benchmarking Survey”, sponsored by Poptel in association with ICSA. The Best Practice Guide is a handy manual for voluntary organisations starting to set out IT policies. The survey showed that while 95% of organizations now have internet access and 83% have a website, only 36% of voluntary organisations have an IT strategy. Although 90% of those who do have an IT strategy believe that the strategy led to better management of IT. Interestingly, only 4% of respondents have a website tested by the RNIB for readability by the visually impaired. Only 10% of respondents with websites provide a “plain vanilla” version of their site to enable older machines to access the site effectively or designed to work well with text-only browsers such as Lynx, which is popular with the visually or orally impaired. The
benchmarking survey provides information about IT usage, attitudes and a
high-level breakdown of annual expenditure.
Copies of the survey results are freely available as a Word document from
www.zyen.com.
Red
Cross Makes Z/Yen Red Letter Day
One not-for-profit organisation that spotted the case for an information
systems strategy ahead of our published findings is the British Red Cross
Society (BRCS). We are delighted to
announce that Z/Yen has been chosen, in stiff competition, to help BRCS with
their information systems strategy over the coming months.
We are so pleased, not just because this is another prestigious win in
the sector, but because it maintains the Z/Yen tradition of developing through
introductions from satisfied clients, in this instance The Children’s Society.
Ian Harris and Mary O’Callaghan will do most of the work, with Michael
Mainelli and Rakesh Shah in the supporting cast. Groundhogging
Given
this headline, we were about to do a piece about the perils of hot-desking and
the need to stake a claim to your own space using appropriate weaponry when
someone pointed out the importance of her fourth birthday 02-02-02 – probably
the ultimate groundhog day for the natural remaining lives of our readers. Readers who have no knowledge of this crucial day and the
important role Punxsutawney Phil plays in the world’s ecosystem are invited to
check out a Bill Murray video or visit www.groundhog.org.
Those who do know Phil realise that Chaos Theory depends more on him than
some silly Brasilian Butterfly. But
then, readers that savvy probably use Rakesh’s weather probability calculator
created by Z/Yen to sanity-check WeatherSure.
As for scurrilous rumours of Z/Yen’s sanity, well… A Jolt for Now & Z/Yen
Environmentally-aware readers have requested an electronic edition of Now & Z/Yen (the electronically addicted have long been able to get their back copies on the website). We never realised that our distributors, Linda and Helen, were so environmentally aware until this suggestion of saving stamps, envelopes and stuffing time came up – strange that. Unsure of demand, we enclose for all readers a handy form, or just email hub@zyen.com asking to receive Now & Z/Yen via email in future. |
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