Insourcing is what is happening at some large global Fortune 500 companies. Essentially this is doing away with H-1B visas and establishing your own IT center

Insourcing is what is happening at some large global Fortune 500 companies. Essentially this is doing away with H-1B visas and establishing your own IT center offshore or rather on a different shore than your HQ. Massive money savings by doing this. The way this should operate for software development is to have people at or near HQ that are the key roles - software architecture, project managers, requirements analysts and software development leads or managers. Then at your Asia branch (India most likely) you would staff up managers, software developers, etc. in a center where they can deliver things that are tightly aligned to your companies strategy instead of aligning to some legal contract. In software terms: insourcing is a tightly coupled mutually beneficial interface, outsourcing is going through a facade owned by two legal teams.