{"id":2,"date":"2009-10-19T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kz-a.net\/wp1\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-02-10T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:56:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/kza\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From its UK base KzA specialises in delivering performance optimisation and transformational improvement assignments to clients large and small based on it&#8217;s proven approach to business transformation.\u00a0 We work in the UK, the EU and further afield as the need arises.<\/p>\n<p>We are especially skilled and knowledgeable in the key area&#8230;&#8230;an absolute critical success factor (CSF) to us&#8230;&#8230;..of Target Operating Models.\u00a0 To be credible in this space requires us to have a sound knowledge across the wide range of of functional areas and management disciplines to be found in the complex environments that business transformation initiatives normally cover.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this we and our extensive network of associates need to have wide hybrid skills, extensive experience and multi-national \/ multi-cultural expertise.\u00a0 In practice this means the majority of us have backgrounds in the large global consulting firms and large national or multi-national organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Our unique service, offering practical help and advice on what is increasingly a core competence for competitive success, has established our place in the consulting industry.\u00a0 This enables us to make a distinctive and substantial positive impact for our clients.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-836\" src=\"http:\/\/kz-a.net\/kza\/wp-content\/uploads\/Steve.Kerzman.jpg\" alt=\"Steve.Kerzman\" width=\"188\" height=\"226\" \/>Steve Kerzman is the founder and principal of Kerzman Associates, the name behind the KzA logo.<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s expertise is in delivering complex transformational change and bottom-line performance improvement benefits in start-ups, SMEs\/SMBs, mid-market, national and multinational organisations.<\/p>\n<p>He founded KzA as a vehicle for both continuing his work and also for making these essential business capabilities and techniques available to mid-tier clients&#8230;.who have similar needs but not the big budgets of their larger cousins.<\/p>\n<p>In support of these aims\u00a0Steve is also a registered and approved Growth Coach with the UK Business Growth Service for London and the SouthEast of the UK and has a particular focus on working with fast-growing, technology-led organisations of all sizes and stages of maturity.<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s experience and skills are based on his work in both line management roles and consultancy assignments in the following sectors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Tech &amp; Communications<\/li>\n<li>Aerospace &amp; Defence<\/li>\n<li>Capital Equipment<\/li>\n<li>Consumer Goods<\/li>\n<li>Chemicals &amp; Pharmaceuticals<\/li>\n<li>Resources &amp; Utilities<\/li>\n<li>Public Sector<\/li>\n<li>Third (non-profit) Sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Typical assignment types Steve has undertaken include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translating visions into business models, operating strategies and target operating models underpinned by delivery plans, business cases and robust execution management<\/li>\n<li>M&amp;A due diligence and post-merger integration, JVs and Outsourcing<\/li>\n<li>Product Development and Supply Chain re-engineering (e.g. Lean-Six-Sigma, Agile, BPR)<\/li>\n<li>Large systems architecture, integration and implementation<\/li>\n<li>Business start-ups, turn-arounds and closures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about Steve visit his <a title=\"Steve Kerzman Linked-In Profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevekerzman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linked-In Profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From its UK base KzA specialises in delivering performance optimisation and transformational improvement assignments to clients large and small based on it&#8217;s proven approach to business transformation.\u00a0 We work in the UK, the EU and further afield as the need arises. 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