April Another Win-Win Month For Z/Yen

Following Z/Yen’s highly prestigious win in March at The DERA (Defence Evaluation Research Agency), April provided further cheer with two more exciting and challenging wins.

Stuart Otter won a competitive bid to conduct a strategic review at Argonaut Software, makers of market-leading video games and video machine chips.

As Stuart put it, "at one point we didn’t think we were going to win the bid, but you know what they say, ‘the video game ain’t over until the fat alien’s been blown to smithereens’. Seriously, we are delighted to have the opportunity to work with such a dynamic company in this exciting and fast moving industry."

Ian Harris was similarly bullish about Z/Yen’s other win, a review of The National Council For Voluntary Organisation’ (NCVO’s) publications arm. Ian is doing the work jointly with David Highton and Michael Mainelli. In view of Ian’s well-known ramblings on such matters, Now and Z/Yen asked him to sum up his feeling about the win in a single word. He replied succinctly "um". This assignment, also won in competition, includes a telephone survey of NCVO publications’ customers. Would Now and Z/Yen readers who ever buy or use NCVO publications please call Ian Harris at the Z/Yen number shown below for a five to ten minute interview (yes, really) over the next week or so?

You Know Those Z/Yen Folk, Always Networking Like Crazy

It’s official!! The Z/Yen PC network is in and running. Based on Windows NT, Z/Yen people can now make use off all the Z/Yen computer facilities, not only at head office but also by dialling in to remote access modems from anywhere they like.

The next phase will include shared applications through groupware and wider access for Z/Yen people to the Internet and WWW. Several Z/Yen people enjoyed a morning "surfing the net" at the Cyberia Café earlier in the month.

The Z/Yen voice-mail network has been up and running for four months now. If you want to join the voice network, please call Kate and let her know.

Z/Yen Goes Into Full Scale Hiring Mode - And A Good Job Too!!

Z/Yen is now in the process of hiring several additional professional staff in order to meet the abundant demand for its business advice services. Some candidates are already at the negotiation and offer stage. Please get in touch with Kate Carty on (0207) 606-5750 as soon as possible if you know any high calibre people who might wish to join. Comments on Now and Z/Yen, as always, are welcomed. Please fax articles and ideas through for the next issue (copy date 26 May). See you all, Z/Yen!