Platonic Schizophrenia: A pattern about mistaking the idea for the real thing ... and mistaking a thing for what you actually need.

Focus on the core business! Following this imperative, companies and projects try to take advantage from globalization and environment. Software parts or entire systems are being contracted out to companies that understand better how to engineer software systems. In the automobile industry, a long tradition of combining complex ingredients has changed the focus from building automobiles towards the process of supplier management. Organizations rely on external knowledge to do the payroll system or the entire IT support.