More outlook nirvana!

As I posted before the date field in outlook allows for free form text. Well not only does the field allows me to enter dates, and recognizes it, now the big discovery: Today I was trying to figure what date was the last Friday of the month - so I entered "Last friday of March" and then automagically the control punched in the date. Cool! I use this date field so much, and up until now I was always entering the date in numbers, now I can say next Friday, and boom I get the date for it. I should have read the manual to figure this before.

Challenges of operating alone in India

Reversing the BOT (Build operate and Transfer) model. For the longest time Indian companies offered companies to kick start their operations in india, and after three years the same company could buy the team over and run wit the ball. I don't know if this is a trend, but lately the same Companies who used the BOT model or started on their own are realizing than unless they reach a minimum of three digits the challenges of running a business in India are enormous. The numbers of companies starting their own captive centers is stable, ie not growing anywhere near growth rate in the outsourcing business. Now we're seeing companies with actual centers in India divesting of them to have a specialist manage them. The market in India is so hot that running a business there is nothing like any north american companies is prepared for.