Ask the experts.(financial management advice for company owners)(Brief Article)

A contingency plan to grow on

Like many of the region's small technology companies, ITM Associates is young and aggressive. In only six years in existence, the Tysons Corner software developer has posted annual revenues that has landed it on some lists of companies to watch.

Now ITM is launching a hot product that could trigger even more explosive growth. ITM will roll out PDFinFusion, a program that bridges a gap between Adobe Acrobat and Lotus Notes by not only allowing users to view shared documents on Web sites and via networks and e-mail, but also granting a controlled group of users the capability to simultaneously mark up the documents.

Anticipating even faster rates of growth, Ian Altman and Bob …