Control Compounds: The GCC Playbook for US Companies
By Veeral Lakhani. A practical guide for PE operating partners, CEOs, and board members evaluating or running India Global Capability Centers. Coming Spring 2026.
What the Book Covers
The GCC Maturity Index
A diagnostic framework that scores your India operations from Level 1 (Rented Core) to Level 5 (Strategic Weapon). 70% of companies that think they have a GCC are operating at Level 1 or 2. The book shows you where you actually stand and what it takes to advance.
The 8 Failure Modes
Every GCC that has failed did so in one of eight predictable ways. The book maps each failure mode, explains the warning signs, and provides the operational fixes. Failure Mode #7 alone (premature termination) costs $1.5M to $4M in write-offs.
The COPO Model
The book's most commercially important chapter. Five failure patterns of the ownership partner model, including the self-critique that builds credibility: when the partner believes their own story. Decision authority boundaries, operational handoff protocols, and the economics of provider-operated ownership.
Prove-Expand-Compound
The launch framework. Start with 15 people proving the model works, not 80 proving it does not. On a 5-year PE hold: prove in months 1-6, expand in months 6-12, compound for 3.5 years before exit.
The AI Accelerant
Before AI, vendor dependency was leaving money on the table. After AI, it is transferring advantage. Every month of vendor processing is a month of training data accumulating outside your governance. The book explains why owned operations are now a strategic imperative, not just a cost play.
Who This Book Is For
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