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In true Sherpa spirit, Ethan serves lunch at Emmanuel Dining Room - April 11th, 2012

Innovation

As technology guides, our clients look to us for direction on how to get the most return on their IT spend.  They want to stay current, use proven technology and improve their business productivity. How do we manage all these needs and wants? Through embracing, not rejecting, innovation.

Welcome to the second quarter of 2012 – have you gotten all your projects lined up yet? Thought about any refreshes you may want to do? If you’re like most business owners, you’ve decided how to put your budgets to the best use this year – replacing aging workstations with those more likely to improve employee efficiency.

When technology lets you down, who is to blame?

When you look at your business and the systems that keep it functioning, can you honestly predict when they are going to fail? When is it a foregone conclusion to refresh your technology? Are you prepared for an extended outage due to weather, power or other conditions? How slow or unreliable does something need to be to warrant replacement?

If you can't answer these questions, or if you never even thought about them, then you are like most business owners – and that's why we stress preparedness.

In our Future Now series, we’ve been exploring how advances in technology can enable us to stay ahead of the curve for business trends. But I want to share an alternate view of the Future Now philosophy – knowing when there isn’t a high tech solution, and relying instead upon good old-fashioned ingenuity.

Hello, and welcome to 2012! You may have noticed that we didn’t send you a newsletter in January. Well, we know it’s the beginning of a new year, a new business quarter, and you’re swamped – getting back to work after the holidays, making and meeting your first quarter goals, etc.

In our youth, we have the distinct advantage of viewing the world in a straightforward manner. Cause and effect is a simple logic that we are taught to follow – if we want to buy something, we must earn the money. If we want to be healthy, we must eat right and exercise regularly.

Before I got into the technology business, I used to think of the “the future” as a projected time so far beyond my immediate reality that it seemed like a sci-fi movie. I would see this high-tech future in terms of outer space, like, “In the future, Explorer space probe will start sending high resolution photographs of Saturn’s rings.

News from the Manufacturing Front

As the year comes to a close, we wanted to remind you that there is still time to take advantage of Section 179 Deduction – the “Cinderella Tax Law” -- by purchasing your business equipment and putting it into use before December 31st, 2011.

If you haven’t heard of Section 179 , now is the time to call your financial advisor and get caught up.

Ethan and Greg at IT Nation 2011 – Orlando, FL 11/11/2011

The Jesses and Meme model their Yak Hats. Sherpa HQ 10/31/2011