So, what is a business seller to do when he didn’t want to be in lending business to start with and now has a need for immediate cash? What many people don’t realize is that business note can be sold. The former owner can sell all or part of note to get a lump sum of cash. In this way, both goals of selling business and getting cash out of it are met.

In summary, selling a business note is an excellent way for former owner of a business to get his cash out of business. Whether reason for selling note is that seller would have preferred all cash all along, that he now has large debts to pay, or that he has opportunity to pursue other investments, sale of a business note is a tool of which you should always be aware.

An even greater concern may be potential for losing additional operating budgets – resource consolidation by nature reduces cost of doing business, thus it is expected individual units will require less funding than they currently receive.

Of course in most cases this is simply not true – however it is a strong perception.

Now let’s talk a bit more about GRID. You have probably heard about it – and have a nagging thought in back of your head eventually you are going to have to deal with it. You know it is going to seriously disrupt conventional ideas about systems management and resource utilization, and it may be one of those thought s that you want to put out oif your mind until last possible minute.

Let’s look at some simple GRID facts:

Properly employed GRID will greatly increase amount of compute resource available to your company. In article “GRID Computing,” Royal Bank Insurance gives example that actuarial calculation requirements were reduced from 18 hours to 32 minutes upon employment of their enterprise GRID. Monsanto claims in same article they have reduced their new server purchase year over year by 90 percent Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, Wachovia, and others have announced consolidating enterprise desktops into an enterprise processing GRID With this level of enterprise adoption of GRID technologies, it is clear this is a technology we are all going to deal with within next couple years. So if statistics mentioned in Platform’s survey are true, there is potentially going to be a lot of organizational trauma. However looking at money savings, it is very clear that benefits of employing GRID resource virtualization within an organization are tremendous.

Thus question should not be whether or not an individual or section will lose control of a small number of resources, but rather how much more work they can potentially do if their existing applications and strategies can make use of compute power of enterprise GRID. Once power of corporate compute resource pool is addressed and registered, all compute intensive applications within organization will have much greater flexibility and have greater potential for building innovation into their product or service designs. With GRID resource, applications can be better written to solve problems and tasks, rather than simply be written against limitations of a piece of hardware or operating system.

Just as email had a major impact on way we viewed business communications, GRID computing will have a similar effect on how we approach business planning. As employees, leaders, and professionals now is time for us to start thinking with long term vision – don’t think about winning petty battles within organization – concentrate on winning war. Your resources contribute to success of organization in winning corporate and global economic wars.