Well hello again. With the culmination of the holiday travel period, New Year’s festivities and all of those broken resolutions (I stopped making them in the first place years ago), welcome back to your reality that is credit card payments, traffic jams and a brand new fiscal budget (oh, and of course Somalia again)! Now, I’d like to say to you, “Hey there. Just give me control of your budget and I’ll improve your bottom line, improve efficiencies and make sure things run more smoothly in general.” However I know better. If only it were that easy… Arnold thinks so; thanks to Google’s California tax contributions, but what about the rest of us?

Assuming you were able to get the healthy percentage of the budget you asked for in the first place, how are you going to effectively spend it on the day-to-day fixes and planned projects, while still keeping some available for the unforeseen server crashes, fires, floods, wars, etc.? Are you ambitious enough to plan an organizational migration to Vista? Will you be able to reduce the usual 30% annual support charges at all? What about installing a VoIP/CRM application in your customer support center? Or perhaps finally getting that redundant Internet/voice T to stem the tide of anger from your remote office in Denver every time it snows? There are many, many ways to spend this money and I don’t for once envy your situation. Because no matter what you do, you’re still spending too much money in the eyes of the bean-counters and your subordinates/over-worked lackeys still think you’re cheap.

If this situation sounds familiar, do more than ‘reach out and touch base.’ Let us help you. I may not be able to solve the complex conflicts in Western and Northern Africa, or help Arnold provide universal healthcare (thanks again, Google), but I’ll be damned if together, my partners and I can’t save you a bunch of money, make you look better in everyone’s eyes*** and make things run just a little bit smoother. Here’s to 2007 and all of the complexities it promises to bring. Do you need an ‘IV’?

***Disclaimer: I don’t claim to be able to have the same effect in your personal life.