HYDERABAD, TELANGANA: In a landmark moment for India’s Global Capability Center (GCC) industry, GCC Governance: Mastering Law, Risk, and Leadership in Global Capability Centers — billed as the first book of its kind in India — was officially launched by D. Sridhar Babu, IT & Legislative Affairs Minister, Government of Telangana. The book is authored by Dr. Kurella Venkata Chakrapani, a senior finance, tax, and governance leader with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and transforming global enterprises, and is published by Gurucool Publishing.
The launch marks a significant milestone for a publication focused squarely on the governance challenges and opportunities shaping India’s booming GCC sector — a segment that has evolved from a cost-efficient back-office model into a strategic engine of innovation, digital transformation, and global value creation.
A Systems-Led Approach to a Complex Challenge
Modern GCCs operate across multiple jurisdictions, regulatory frameworks, business functions, and stakeholder groups, where decisions on taxation, labour law, contracts, data, intellectual property, compliance, and ESG can no longer be treated as isolated issues. GCC Governance reframes governance as a systems-led discipline in which individual decisions ripple across organizational structures, risk profiles, and business outcomes.
Rather than positioning governance as a mere compliance requirement, Dr. Chakrapani presents it as a strategic capability — one that supports agility, accountability, resilience, and long-term enterprise growth. The book argues that as GCCs scale, traditional, fragmented compliance models are no longer sufficient, and calls for frameworks that integrate legal understanding, financial insight, risk management, and leadership judgment into a single, cohesive approach.
Key Areas Covered
The book explores the critical domains shaping the operation and growth of global capability centers, including:
- Regulatory structuring
- Taxation
- Labour laws
- Data governance
- Intellectual property
- Contracting
- Risk management
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibilities
By connecting these disciplines, the book equips leaders to identify risks earlier, strengthen accountability, and build governance structures capable of adapting to changing regulatory and business conditions — positioning governance not as a control function, but as a genuine strategic advantage.
About the Author
Dr. Kurella Venkata Chakrapani is a senior finance, tax, and governance leader with more than two decades of experience building, scaling, and transforming global enterprises. He has led complex global assignments spanning operational excellence, strategic service delivery, regulatory alignment, and governance design. As a board member, thought leader, and speaker, he works with organizations to navigate complexity through clarity of decisions and sustainable governance frameworks, and continues to shape the evolving role of GCCs in the global business landscape.
Who Should Read This Book
GCC Governance is written for GCC leaders, finance and tax professionals, legal and compliance experts, board members, risk managers, consultants, and business executives, as well as aspiring GCC leaders seeking to understand the evolving relationship between governance, risk, law, leadership, and enterprise transformation.
As GCCs continue their journey from support centers to enterprise-wide strategic partners, the book offers a timely, practical guide to building governance systems that are not only compliant, but scalable, resilient, and future-ready.
“Where decisions shape systems — and systems shape the future.”
Availability
GCC Governance: Mastering Law, Risk, and Leadership in Global Capability Centers (ISBN: 978-9-37-602029-4, MRP INR 995) is published by Gurucool Publishing and is available for purchase on Amazon.
Buy the book: https://amzn.in/d/0gxkTOQe
