Now & Z/Yen - May 2002
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited May 2002
Coming
a Close 20,000nd to Paula Radcliffe in the London Marathon
Everyone
knows that After
months of hard training, and even longer deciding what to wear, on Sunday 14
April, Francesca took her place at the start and enjoyed the event tremendously,
particularly when overhearing a little boy asking his mother , “when are all
the fun runners coming past as these people don’t look as if they are having
much fun.” Francesca raised over
£2,000 for Children with Leukaemia (a task that proved harder than the marathon
itself!). Next year Z/Yen hopes to be fielding a second marathon runner in the
shape of Jeremy Smith who is getting into training with the Great North Run for
the Children’s
Society Merger
Mystery Tour - OligopoLuedo
As
Z/Yennies will know, we are so socially-challenged that we find it necessary to
subject our Lady Daphne networking guests to complicated games and then bury
them in cheap corporate gimcrack prizes like a million Turkish lira to buy their
affection. Over the last three
years our Boating Bourse games have grown to five - technology, environment,
law, biotechnology and facilities management.
These business/ hospitality games have become a shore-based product line
in their own right for awaydays and conferences (call for a quote) - but guests
clamoured for new chances to win prizes on the boat
We
felt compelled to develop an entirely new fun format, so in April we launched a
new merger mystery, OligopoLuedo (elementary my dear Watson).
Our clever friends managed to convict the ‘Enron’ (as for the
not-so-clever ones…), and uncover the dastardly tricks it was up to, but some
had problems finding their ideal merger partner.
Nevertheless, substantial M&A fees and soouuuper prizes were had by
all. So dust off those cupboard
games and practise before your next trip. Bring
your own deerstalker. Mashy
niblicks provided on board. In
the Meantime
Z/Yen's
risk/reward interim management group keeps growing.
With 15 placements, we have a large and diverse team helping various
clients as finance directors, project managers, HR managers, marketing
specialists, IT directors, telecomms experts and contract negotiators, to name a
few. For fixed deliverables, Z/Yen
continues to grow its special projects area, but where clients are prepared to
manage skilled people Z/Yen provides them
directly.
Obviously, we have to do it our way, which involves performance-based
contracts with our people and monthly QA reviews.
However, we still struggle with the term "interim management",
so yet another bottle of bubbly from our rapidly depleting cellars (you should
see these former bomb-shelters sometime) to
the reader with the most Z/Yennable catchphrase! Summer in the City
Z/Yen
has completed its first Competitive Cost Comparison of the Year with reports
being sent out to 11 banks. Work
continues on three other benchmarking studies including a new piece of work on
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for a mjor European Bank. It’s
only Risk’n’Reward but we like it !!
A
Z/Yen group has been to see Echo and the Bunnymen at “What
is the most environmentally friendly group in the world?: Eco and the Bunnymen.
What is the most self-centred group in the world?:
Ego and the Bunnymen. The
most logical?: Ergo…The least
environmentally friendly?: Esso…The
most envious?: Iago…The most
greedy?: Gekko and the Moneymen. Rumours
of a Z Club 7 tribute single “Bring on the Stochastic Processes” are sadly
premature.
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