Bangalore, April 25, 2025 – 14th Degree Azimuth Advisory, a boutique GCC advisory firm focusing on AI-First Global Capability Centers for Trade Buyers and Enterprises, today released its GCC report titled “GCCs – Evolution, Technology Adoption and Way Ahead, Thought Leadership Paper covering AI Readiness in Back and Middle Office”, at a function held in Bangalore.
Releasing the report, Yadu Singh, Global Managing Partner, 14th Degree Azimuth Advisory said “AI proof of concepts are slowly getting into production in back and middle office in GCCs. These PoCs not only face employee resistance especially among the more tenured global capability centers but also existing structural and technical challenges like clean and context specific data, data localisation challenges and ESG pressures such as more stringent GDPR, DPDP act for offshore entities.”
The report provides key insights on
- Efficiency of operations is a clear winner when it comes to business outcomes
- Rising Challenges in Data Privacy, Protection, and Compliance
- Increasing demand for Environmental Social and Governance Reporting
- GCCs at the Core of Cost-Effective Digital Transformation
Talking about the how the report benefits enterprises looking at setting up their GCC’s , Nandini Sankar, Managing Partner said “The 14DAA research methodology comprised of both experiential learning of last 25 years across both providers and GCC owners as well as primary research on AI readiness in back and middle office. Rather than focusing heavily on historical data, we centred our approach on three discontinuities reshaping the ecosystem—AI, Quantum Computing, and the rapid transformation of Digital/Public infrastructure in countries like India. This is not a case of continuous improvement but of disruptive innovation, requiring a fresh perspective for evaluation. Our key objective was to assess the maturity of centers, Leadership, Culture, and Operating Structure. The focus was to assess the management flexibility of the parent company to fully embrace these discontinuities (for example AI) and the ability of GCC to move toward a more risk mitigation and business outcome-based innovation driven approach for the parent.”
The event was attended by leading companies like Enerva Marine, Fresenius, Harmann International, Infinity Infoway, Mercedes Benz, NDB Wealth, Randstad Digital, Sutherland Global amongst others.
The report will also be launched in London on June 10th (Backdrop of the London AI Summit), New York on June 17th (Backdrop of the Banking IT Summit) and Hamburg on June 24/25th (Backdrop of India Week)
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