thinkASG

Please allow me to extend a hearty “Merry Christmas” on behalf of team thinkASG.  We truly hope you and yours are able to enjoy the holiday, look back on 2009 with fond memories and look forward to 2010 with anticipation for all things positive.

This year has been an interesting one for our nation, the world; certainly the business clime as we know it.  We have seen unprecedented economic duress that has put the pressure on us to sharpen our skills and at thinkASG this has been a year for “strengthening our core”.

We thank you for those partnerships that engaged us to help think of ways to save IT investment dollars.  We have worked hard with you to make sure we understand the business issues with which you are faced, to create solutions that will address these issues, and to do so with a constant focus on finding immediate savings, protecting material investments and, where possible, creating new and sustainable revenue streams.  I am proud to say that we, with our client partners, have had a year where focus on these core propositions has made a difference in many Southern California businesses.

In speaking at our annual Christmas party this year, we decided to focus on gifts.  To acknowledge that sometimes the most significant gifts are always the most obvious.  After all, Jesus was a baby born in a remote stable…and became our Saviour for whom’s birth we celebrate every year.  We have had many gifts this year, allow us to acknowledge a few.  We are here, and we are strong.  Our value based model has been proven as a sustainable construct that has provided gainful employment thru this trying time.   And, our clients have continued to participate in our consultative process, with many immediate and long term returns being identified jointly – thank you for making your patronage one of those gifts we don’t ever want to take for granted.

Moving into 2010 surely has some uncertainty, but there are several things we can depend on.   thinkASG will continue to focus on thinking of ways to save your firm valued IT investment dollars.  We will continue to work on the people, process and principles that are at our core.  And we will continue to view our relationships with you and your firms as the most important gift in the business world.

Again, Merry Christmas and allow me to be the first to wish you a happy and prosperous 2010!.

“Just a couple words, THANK YOU.  Thank you for your attendance, thank you for your support, thank you for your partnership.  At thinkASG our 2H09 playbook is based on three tenants
               – Back to Basics
               – Building a Book of Business
               – Being Better B(t)ogether

Basics means we all shoulder in together to make sure we are efficient, maximum leveraged and totally effective in identifying, progressing and closing the plethora of opportunity we know exists for our spectrum of cost containment infrastructure solutions.  Building a book means making sure we present all of our key partner offerings where we have existing relationships of influence, and offering our solutions as expanded value to where our partners have similar presence.  Better together is the reason we convened last nite, to network, communication, plan and EXECUTE.

We look forward to continued and shared success in the selling field.  Again, THANK YOU!”

David W. Browning, CEO

“Are you certifiable?   Well apparently I am!

This old dog just went thru a little bit of don’t ask unless willing to do, and took one of the ever increasing certifications that we are asking our crew to do because the manufacturers are asking the same of our industry.

Yes, DB is cerfifiably a NEDC Sales Leader (and no – that is not No Enterprise Data Center – cloud computing – an actual answer choice), that’s the skill to represent the IBM smarter planet concept of dynamic infrastructure. 

So, ever increasing cert requirements? Yes, in an industry that wasn’t long ago a business of delivering cardboard boxes and hoping you could put them together, the manufacturers are helping the client to cull the ranks by making sure we’re part of the smarter planet.

For my experience, this cert was pretty relevant – it was about how the best of breed elements (storage, server, middleware) go together to really make a difference, to be the best in the technology field and to address issues that really matter in commercial enterprises today.

Ask me about it – I’ll share my smarts and those of our team – we really can give you some great ideas and you really can depend on the fact that we know our stuff – after all we’re certifiable!”

We get paid to help you save money….thank you for working with our team in partnership in 2008 to determine the right places to optimize your IT operation.  Team tASG appreciates that you have a choice, we’re glad you selected us as your IBM solutions provider.

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