I have no experience working with Indian outsourcing companies, so for now I'll just accept the general consensus here. Ok, if it's true that these people lack

I have no experience working with Indian outsourcing companies, so for now I'll just accept the general consensus here. Ok, if it's true that these people lack initiative, but are very good at following directions, then can one game the system to get essentially a parallel processor made out of humans? This would require the Indian outsourcing firms to be programmable. I.e. what's the overhead in uploading your own custom process / methodology, and training people on it? Do the benefits of scale outweigh the "re-tooling" time?