The need for productivity --; The history and myths of outsourcing --; Strange bedfellows --; the opportunists of outsourcing --; Market myopia, Enron, and political overreaction --; The economics of who's right and who's wrong --; Screw it, I'll outsource --; The "difficult in" over the "easy out" --; Fear of a global planet --; The last of the spirits --; Solutions, what if--; --; Conclusion: get involved.
Argues that outsourcing is a neutral proposition, versus a positive or a negative one, and that companies too often assume that outsourcing will solve their problems through cost reduction while they overlook opportunities to increase real productivity.