2026

Failure by Design- Why small & Medium Capability Centres/ GCC fail​

Leave a Comment / Future of Work, Human Resources Strategy, Offshoring, Organisation Design /

Success has eluded Talent hubs of mid sized organisations- A lot of them meander to mediocrity over a preiod of 5-6 years and then get absorbed (rebadged is the term used) into a solutions firms like Accenture, Deloitte or TCS. This is due to faulty organisation design; What works for a large firm does not work for a small organisation. This blog explains both the why and the solution.

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The Enshittification of the Talent Function​

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Whenever the stock market is on a bull run, every investing expert appears to be a genius and every strategy a winner — but when the bubble bursts, the ones left standing are the “real experts,” or the lucky ones.

The same logic holds for the talent function. The IT sector has been on an extended bull run for the last 20 years; in fact, the COVID pandemic gave it a boost, with the world hailing a new paradigm of digitization and work from home. Easy capital spawned a startup frenzy, with fintech, B2C e-commerce, and SaaS firms scaling up — and the talent function was at the core of this growth:

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