For years, establishing a Global Capability Center (GCC) in India was an exclusive privilege for billion-dollar companies with deep pockets and the right connections. Such firms could afford big consulting firms, convoluted structure, and an ecosystem that enabled them to access India’s phenomenal talent pool.

For small and mid-market companies, though, the route to creating a GCC was very complicated. 6S Consulting, a preferred partner of choice for international businesses, distinguishes this challenge.

The company is revolutionizing the way businesses engage with GCC strategy and operations by making them more democratic, transparent, and innovation-driven. By empowering businesses to set up capability centers that deliver both efficiency and innovation, it is building long-term value through seamless talent fusion, cultural synergy, and operational excellence.

“We wanted to change the perception that GCCs are the playground of the elite. Our mission is to make them the growth engine of every company with the vision to scale globally”, says Shivaganesh Ramakrishnan, Founder & CEO, 6S Consulting.

Building Future-Ready GCCs through Talent, Technology & Trust

6S Consulting was established on the belief that any business, not only the largest, needs to be able to leverage India’s potential for talent, flexibility, and innovation.

Having over two decades of experience in the industry, the founder witnessed how big IT services companies created global accounts and multinationals built themselves in India from scratch, uncovering the enormous potential of the country’s people and system.

“Build it right, and your GCC becomes your second HQ, not your second thought”, says Jill Schindler, Co-Founder & Head of Americas, 6S Consulting. To access this, it created AI-powered platforms such as Dewdrop, which streamline the whole GCC experience encompassing Advisory capabilities such as location insight, Operating Model Recommendation and Implementation Roadmap. Dewdrop also helps to includes capabilities for Business entity setup, recruitment, vendor management, and performance tracking to ensure that centers develop into future-proof centers.

Our success is measured not by the number of GCCs we set up, but by how many of them become innovation power houses for the companies we serve

The company provides end-to-end offerings like advisory, infrastructure, vendor access, and talent recruitment for companies committed completely to India, while phased engagements and its Build-Operate-Transform model enable others to dip their toes in the water with less risk.

Jill Schindler, Co-Founder & Head - Americas

Fundamentally, it operates a banyan tree model: an international advisory council constitutes the branches while a large in-house talent pool constitutes the roots. By hand-selecting culturally attuned teams, embedding AI and automation in every process, and driving innovation through university partnerships and excellence clusters, the company turns GCCs into vibrant hubs of strategy, culture, and innovation.

Future Vision

The path of 6S Consulting is just starting. Though at present it is focused on democratizing GCC setup and scaling in India across Tier I and emerging Tier II the long-term vision lies much ahead. With its transformational product ecosystem, particularly Dewdrop, the company visualizes a day when setting up business across geographies is as easy as opening one in your hometown city. Its vision is to make global business setup and scaling itself easy, so businessmen from Poland to Brazil or from the US to Southeast Asia can set up their businesses with the same ease and confidence.