By Barbara Rose, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 20--WHAT TECH SLUMP? FIND NICHE AND THRIVE: His firm's software consulting business was shrinking when Chief Executive John Jasper hopped a plane two years ago to visit the company's modest tech support center in downtown Fargo, N.D.
The 24-hour center helps clients get their computers back up and running when systems crash.
SEI Information Technology Inc. traditionally sold such services as an add-on to its higher-margin software consulting services. But Jasper decide