India, Sept. 24 -- They are already spinning $98.4 billion in revenue and employing 2.36 million professionals (as assessed in FY2026 by a Dell-Zinnov-Nasscom report). But will this GCC zeal last? Will it elbow out traditional service towers in a big sweep? Will GCC-basket lean in more towards the core?

Like always, the answers swing between a Yes and a No. IP, NPI, and real ownership, those are the decisive factors that will separate the wheat from the chaff in the current GCC zeitgeist. Sriram Lakshminarayanan, President, Honeywell Technology & Connected Solutions (HTCS), Honeywell Technologies also explains why execution scale, expertise built over years and niche edge will be the new hallmarks of service providers and why GCCs will m...