Pankaj Sharma

Many GCC/GBS initiatives stall not due to intent, but because of execution friction across location, talent, vendors, governance, and risk. Join this guided executive simulation to navigate real trade-offs under time, cost, talent, and risk constraints with access to deep data and expert assistance. Explore why setups fail in the first 24 months including challenges like strategic drift, weak location readiness, vendor-heavy execution, and late-detection governance. This workshop will offer collaborative small-group blueprint building, including choosing a city and backup location, sequencing talent and vendors, responding to regulatory or talent shocks, and managing trade-offs between speed, cost, and resilience.

Together, we will explore the five success criteria:

• Program Wisdom: alignment, milestone health, recovery paths
• Geo Wisdom: city decisions balancing talent, cost, risk, and ESG
• Talent Wisdom: hiring feasibility, leadership readiness, attrition signals
• Ecosystem Wisdom: vendor sequencing, dependencies, and fallback readiness
• Delivery Wisdom: outcome governance and execution velocity

Key Takeaways:

• How to select a location
• How to avoid first-time mistakes and build a orchestration plan
• How to manage the setup and build the GCC as strategic assets rather than cost centers