In India's Outsourcing Boom, GE Played a Starring Role.

Reports on General Electric's role in creating the outsourcing phenomena in India. Pitch by India in 1989 to then CEO Jack Welch which resulted in a technology partnership with began the rush to India for outsourcing and saved GE billions of dollars; Belief that Welch's culture of cost-cutting and efficiency taught the Indian companies business skills they are now using to compete globally; Background on the relationship between the American company and the Indian vendors; How far outsourcing has taken the Indian economy. INSET: Fruitful Partnership.