Now & Z/Yen - July 2001
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited July 2001 Book Of The Year
Janie and Elisabeth, who were often weekend widows during the book’s creation, have demanded assurances that the authors give it (their public) a rest. Now & Z/Yen can exclusively reveal the solemn promise the girls extracted from the lads: "never again, until the next one". Z/Yen’s 21st
Sweep Of The Month
Location, Location, Location
Gentlemen (and Ladies) – Start Your Stochastic Perception Engines!
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Scribble scribble scribble, eh Messrs Harris
and Mainelli? Yes, the terrible twins have been at it again; their second book
is out - Information Technology for the Not-for-Profit Sector,
ICSA Publishing, ISBN 1860721303 (order early to avoid disappointment). This
book is truly a first on this subject and much needed in the sector. Much like
latter-day Woody Allen movies, the new book has fewer laughs than the seminal Clean
Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen, Milet Publishing, ISBN 1840592273
(order today to beat the rush). Having achieved Sunday Times "Book of the
Week" and Waterstone’s "Christmas Recommended" with Clean
Business Cuisine, the lads are holding out great hopes for the new title –
nomination for the Sleepless in Seattle award has already led to rumours
of talks with Spielberg over movie rights.
We haven’t been going that long, but we now
have 21 active banking clients. Jeremy, Shelley and Giles are wrapping up their
third benchmarking survey of the year and two more are planned for the autumn.
Jeremy’s proposed marketing slogan "We Rank the Banks" was rightly
thrown out (it stank) for "Optimising Value in Financial Services
Processing". A set of marketing material has been developed on this second
theme - further details from Jeremy.
When Michael Mainelli announced that he was
going to "pop in to the office for half-an-hour" during a day’s
leave, the Z/Yen aficionados sniggered. Some bright spark suggested a sweepstake
on how long Michael would actually stay. Giles Wright won by guessing 140
minutes; very close to the actual "145 minute half-hour". Ian Harris
was fuming that he came second with 165 minutes despite inside knowledge.
Michael, naturally, was oblivious to the whole thing, although he and Giles were
later seen swapping cash in a dark alley – probably Giles’ debts to the
coffee pool. Sweepstakes are very risk/reward, so Now & Z/Yen is seeking
ideas for future sweeps. Suggestions so far:
Our property sector work keeps expanding, but
the location stays the same. First we start marketing on S.B. Lady Daphne
– a boat. Then Michael accepts a non-exec directorship with CityAxis, a
design-manage-construct firm (more later) which requires him to attend the
property sector’s Little Britain race – on a boat. Then Michael is invited
to give a keynote presentation at the Property Forum in September on P&O’s
Arcadia – a boat. So where’s all the dry land our clients manage?
We are pleased to announce the completion of a
major software programme which we have been helping to manage with HTTP (see
previous issue and/or