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AI-first global capability centers, compounding value, year after year

Infosys designs, builds, scales and transforms global capability centers (GCCs) with AI as part of the operating model from day one. Our ready-to-deploy frameworks cover the full range of GCCs: strategy and business case, legal entity and operating model, talent and location choice, transition and governance, and continuous scaling and transformation. Enterprises use them to build centers faster, run them leaner, and help them remain strategically relevant as enterprise priorities evolve.

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Key stats

25+
Active GCC engagements
5000+
GCC personnel hired across functions
30% - 40%
Savings in processing costs offered through AI-driven Ops
4
Geographies served - APAC, AMERICAS, EMEA, Australia
27+
Global delivery centers to support GCC Ops
35+
GCC Services Offered along with End-to-end GCC setups

Four pillars, one continuous GCC lifecycle

We support GCCs through integrated advisory, delivery, and governance, ensuring that strategic decisions translate seamlessly into execution and are continuously measured and optimized at scale. Across all four pillars, we hold strategy, compliance, location, operating model, and ongoing optimization in one integrated view, for established hubs and emerging ones alike.

Decide with evidence, not instinct

Before a lease is signed, we determine whether a GCC is the right model, define its scope and expected value, and assess readiness. This includes market, talent, and activity baselining; centralization assessment; cost-benefit modeling and business case development; operating model, governance, and RACI design; process modeling; maturity assessment; and an execution roadmap.

Sub-capability List:

  • GCC strategy and visioning
  • Business case and ROI modeling
  • Operating model and governance design
  • GCC readiness assessment

Outcome: A board-ready decision, with the operating model already designed.

End-to-end execution, under your choice of ownership model

We build the center: legal entity registration, organization design, facilities and infrastructure, talent acquisition, employer branding, transition management, hyper-care, and the move to business as usual. This is done under the commercial model aligned with your risk appetite.

Sub-capability List:

  • Setup and execution models
  • Entity and organization structuring
  • Talent strategy and workforce build
  • Transition execution, change and governance

Outcome: A center that's delivering real business results.

Modular as-a-service capability, without rebuilding what works

For existing centers, we add capability in modules rather than programs: talent as a service and performance excellence to lift throughput; transition, infra, and facilities as a service to absorb new scope; risk, audit, and compliance as a service plus business continuity planning; business value realization and maturity assessment.

Sub-capability List:

  • GCC talent and brand scaling
  • GCC operations and infrastructure optimization
  • Risk, compliance, and resilience
  • GCC value enhancement

Outcome: More scope, more value.

Reimagine the center as an AI-first hub

We assess AI readiness, define the strategy, roadmap, and business case, then execute transformation through process redesign, automation, point solutions, agentic AI platforms, and centers of excellence that embed capabilities into ongoing operations.

Sub-capability List:

  • AI-first GCC readiness assessment, strategy, and roadmap
  • Business case for AI-led transformation
  • Process redesign, automation, and point solutions
  • Agentic AI enablement
  • Automation CoE, reporting, and analytics CoE

Outcome: A center your enterprise transforms with.

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Flexible engagement models to scale your GCC offerings

Build-operate-transform-transfer (BOTT)

Joint venture (JV)

Assisted GCC build

Hybrid (GCC + offshore development center)

Build-operate-acquire (BOA)



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What’s an “AI-first GCC”?

This phrase is making the rounds in this market; here’s our version: an AI-first GCC is one where agentic workflows, platforms, and human teams are designed, governed, and measured together, not a traditional center where copilots are issued to staff. The result is a GCC which absorbs more scope and justifies its business case.

Agentic AI platforms  

Production platforms, not proofs of concept. APOC and IOOP run AI agent-led operations across process towers, with orchestration, human-in-the-loop checkpoints and audit trails built in.

Point solutions 

Targeted accelerators that deploy in weeks: ActSmart, our Data Profiling Assistant, and GenAI BizOps, among others. They can demonstrate value in a single process.

AI-powered blueprints  

Our setup and transition frameworks are pre-instrumented for AI-led operations, so process design, role design, and governance assume agents in the workflow from the initial design stage.

Centers of excellence 

An automation CoE and a reporting and analytics CoE embedded in the center, so capability compounds internally instead of depending on external programs.

Challenges and solutions for global capability centers

Unlike traditional BPO models, utilizing our dedicated GCC services ensures your enterprise retains absolute ownership of its intellectual property, data, and proprietary processes. Our comprehensive GCC offerings are legally and structurally designed to give you complete operational control while acting as a secure, seamless extension of your US headquarters.

Our adaptable gcc services support multiple deployment frameworks, including Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), Joint Ventures, and fully managed hybrid models. We strategically tailor these gcc offerings to align perfectly with your enterprise's specific risk profile, capital expenditure limits, and long-term scalability goals.

Leveraging our pre-configured operational blueprints and AI accelerators, we deploy our GCC services to rapidly establish your new center, often within a few months. Our end-to-end GCC offerings streamline critical bottleneck phases from real estate procurement to initial talent onboarding drastically reducing your time-to-market.

Our premium GCC offerings integrate hyper-localized employer branding and specialized talent incubation strategies to attract top-tier professionals in highly competitive global hubs. By embedding continuous upskilling and strong cultural alignment into our GCC services, we help you build a resilient workforce with significantly lower attrition rates.

Yes, a core strategic pillar of our GCC services is the transformation of mature, transactional cost-centres into high-value centres of Excellence (CoEs). By integrating agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics, our targeted GCC offerings elevate your global operations to drive strategic business orchestration and measurable bottom-line growth.

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