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HR Shared Services: Designing Hire-to-Retire and Payroll Operations for a Multi-Location Company
How to design HR shared services for a multi-location company: the hire-to-retire process map, payroll controls across states, and SLAs.
Read MoreBoard Governance Before Scale: What Founder-Led and PE-Backed Companies Get Wrong
Independent directors, information rights, observers and board packs: what founder-led and PE-backed companies in India get wrong.
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Building an FP&A Function: When a Growing Company Needs It and What It Should Own
What FP&A does beyond budgeting, the signs a growing company needs it, and how to sequence planning, forecasting and reporting.
Read MoreThe Manufacturing Capability Centre: Why the IT GCC Playbook Does Not Transfer to Engineering and Plant Operations
Most India GCC advice is written about software firms. What transfers to engineering R&D and plant operations, what does not,…
Read MoreContract Labour on the Factory Floor: Thresholds, Principal Employer Liability and What the OSH and Industrial Relations Codes Actually Changed
Contract labour threshold rose from 20 to 50 workers. Principal employer liability did not. What the OSH and IR Codes…
Read MoreWhere Manufacturing Overhead Actually Hides: Inventory Carry, Cost of Poor Quality and What Standard Costing Will Not Show You
Inventory carry and cost of poor quality hide inside manufacturing overhead. What standard costing misses, and the four-step fix a…
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India Market Entry for Foreign Companies: Entity Options, FEMA, Tax and When a GCC Is the Right Answer
India market entry for foreign companies: liaison vs branch vs subsidiary, FDI routes under Press Note 2 (2026), tax rates…
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The GCC Talent Playbook: Hiring Your First 50, Attrition Benchmarks and Compensation Design
Hiring your first 50 in an India GCC: notice periods, offer acceptance, 16.2% attrition benchmark and the 9.3% 2026 pay…
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Build-Operate-Transfer for GCCs: Contract Structure, Transfer Triggers and the Other Side of BOT Deals
Build-Operate-Transfer for GCCs in India: Rule 21 pricing, share sale vs slump sale, and the Section 73 clause that decides…
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