New Delhi, July 27 -- As global capability centres take on more AI, engineering, product, and decision-making responsibilities, the next phase of competition will depend on the depth of capability they build.

India's Global Capability Centre (GCC) ecosystem is entering a phase where scale alone may no longer be enough. For years, the growth of GCCs was often measured through the number of people they employed and the size of the operations they handled. But as India-based centres take on product engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, digital platforms, and intellectual property (IP) ownership, the more important question is increasingly what these teams are empowered to do.

The shift is also changing the talent equati...