GCC vs ODC vs EOR in India: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Offshore Model in India
A practical framework to choose between GCC, ODC, and EOR in India. Learn offshore operating model tradeoffs, risks, and scalability decisions.

A Practical Framework for Choosing the Right Offshore Operating Model

Download the whitepaper to understand why offshore expansion is not a hiring decision, but an operating model decision and how many organizations unknowingly lock themselves into failure modes early.

Most offshore strategies look successful at first, hiring happens, costs seem controlled, and delivery continues.The real problems surface later when teams scale, ownership blurs, decisions slow, and leadership bandwidth collapses.

Organizations often choose offshore models based on speed or cost, only to inherit long-term governance and control issues that are expensive or impossible to reverse.

This Is an Operating Model Decision

Global Capability Centre (GCC), Offshore Development Center (ODC), and Employer of Record (EOR) models are not interchangeable. Each carries different assumptions around governance, leadership load, scalability, control, and exit risk.

When these assumptions don’t match organizational readiness, governance debt accumulates quietly. This whitepaper makes those tradeoffs visible before the first hire is made.

What You’ll Learn

  • How GCC, ODC, and EOR models differ structurally not just legally
  • The predictable failure modes of each model
  • Why governance debt forms early in offshore setups
  • When EORs and ODCs stop scaling safely
  • How to sequence EOR → ODC → GCC without losing control
  • A practical decision framework leadership teams can use together

This is not theory, it’s built from real offshore outcomes.

Why This Framework Exists

After working across GCCs, ODCs, and EOR-led teams, one pattern is consistent: Offshore outcomes are determined before the first engineer is hired. This whitepaper helps organizations choose deliberately, rather than inherit consequences silently.

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