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Point of viewGCCs in India

From cost centre to capability centre: what India's GCCs have to prove next

Parents no longer judge their India centres on headcount and rate cards. They want outcomes they can see — products owned, controls that hold, AI that pays back. That shift is as much a data problem as a talent one.

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Point of viewAI in capability centres

Stop reporting SLA breaches. Start predicting them

Service desks measure SLAs after the fact. The same ticket data, read by a handful of well-chosen models, tells a team lead which tickets will breach while there is still time to act.

5 min read

Point of viewGoverning AI

Green SLAs, real risk: auditing service performance on all the data

A dashboard can be green while the service is not. Pauses without customer contact, closures bunched before reporting dates, changes that skip the CAB and leavers who keep access are rarely found by sample-based audits. Testing every record changes that.

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Data points shaping GCCs and IT services now

Sourced figures from our latest research. Each links to the insight that puts it in context.

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regulatory reports automated for a global card issuer's India operations, with zero compliance penalties since implementation
Source: DaasLabs GCC & IT services case study
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ML models in the ITSM intelligence platform we built on a real ticket estate
Source: DaasLabs GCC & IT services case study
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steps in the AI-narrated SLA-integrity investigation
Source: DaasLabs GCC & IT services case study
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cooperating agents provisioning access behind a human approval queue
Source: DaasLabs GCC & IT services case study
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Point of viewGoverning AI

Green SLAs, real risk: auditing service performance on all the data

A dashboard can be green while the service is not. Pauses without customer contact, closures bunched before reporting dates, changes that skip the CAB and leavers who keep access are rarely found by sample-based audits. Testing every record changes that.

6 min read

Point of viewGoverning AI

Agents with the keys: provisioning access without losing control

Access requests are one of the most repetitive jobs in any capability centre — and one of the riskiest to automate. The answer is not to avoid agents, but to design them so that nothing is granted without a named approver and everything is logged.

5 min read

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GCCs in India

How capability centres move from cost to capability.

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AI in capability centres

ML, copilots and agents across IT operations and shared services.

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Finance, HR and business services delivered from India.

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AI in capability centres

Point of viewAI in capability centres

Stop reporting SLA breaches. Start predicting them

Service desks measure SLAs after the fact. The same ticket data, read by a handful of well-chosen models, tells a team lead which tickets will breach while there is still time to act.

5 min read

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Governing AI

Point of viewGoverning AI

Agents with the keys: provisioning access without losing control

Access requests are one of the most repetitive jobs in any capability centre — and one of the riskiest to automate. The answer is not to avoid agents, but to design them so that nothing is granted without a named approver and everything is logged.

5 min read

Point of viewGoverning AI

Green SLAs, real risk: auditing service performance on all the data

A dashboard can be green while the service is not. Pauses without customer contact, closures bunched before reporting dates, changes that skip the CAB and leavers who keep access are rarely found by sample-based audits. Testing every record changes that.

6 min read

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