It's a completely new 'take' on offshoring. Instead of firing the American and hiring 3 Indians with no clue, they KEEP the American and hire him/her two assistants. I will be offloading rote programming tasks, giving them things to do I don't have time for, etc. etc.
Example: Our product is international. We use a resource fall-back manager for localization of foreign strings.
They can replace all the text in the ASP.NET pages with labels for me, and I'll wire it all together.
This might work out.
Color me skeptical, but I could be wrong.
I've seen it tried, actually. It was the last stage of the process. First they off-shored everything, then they tried mixing in a few Americans.
In our experience, it would still have been more productive to have hired one American in place of two or even three Indians.