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Together Global India · Cross-border team performance

Cross-border
teams, working
as one.

Avoidable rework. Needless escalations. Renewals that keep getting harder. It's not a skills gap, it's friction. We remove it, with your clients and global HQ, and prove the result against your own KPIs. It runs alongside live delivery.

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The scale, and the cost hiding inside it
9,700+

Project-months studied. The further apart people are, the longer projects take, and time zones alone don't explain it.
- Hakkarainen, Colicev & Pedersen (2026), Production and Operations Management

1,700+

GCCs now operate in India. The advantage isn't cost anymore. It's performance and trust.
- NASSCOM GCC Tracker, 2025

50%

Of communication failures between distributed teams result in real financial loss. Not inconvenience. Loss.
- Economist Intelligence Unit

Why it keeps happening

The work is
world-class. The
perception isn't.

India's delivery and technology talent is some of the best in the world. But when Indian teams work with UK, US or European clients, something gets lost between them - not in skill, in translation.

The brief gets delivered exactly as written. The client says it's not what they meant. Everybody absorbs the cost - in rework, in stalled conversations, in attrition.

89%

of senior leaders say cross-cultural collaboration is critical to performance. Most have no systematic way to do anything about it.

- Harvard Business Review
Friction-to-Flow Quiz · 2 minutes

Dolphins or Water Buffalo? What's your team's friction profile?

Ten statements, answered from the India side of the relationship. Get your team's friction score, and see where friction is hitting communication, conflict and collaboration.

10statements
2 minto complete
5friction profiles
Take the quiz
FlowFriction
  1. DolphinsLeast friction
  2. OttersLow friction
  3. MahseerMid friction
  4. CrabsHigh friction
  5. Water BuffaloMost friction
Four services. One methodology.

Built for every stage
of India's global
delivery story.

Every engagement starts with a diagnosis and ends with evidence. Built around your teams, your delivery context, and the metrics your leadership already owns.

01
Teams in Flow

Active Teams

Live team under strain, with the client or with global HQ? Work that crosses borders takes longer to deliver. We remove the friction and lift delivery, alongside live work, in about 12 weeks.

  • Friction Audit - where teams break down, and what it costs you
  • Friction-to-Flow Workshop - one day, tailored to your mix of cultures
  • Flow State - gains proved against your own KPIs
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02
Teams in Flow

New Teams

New GCC or delivery pod? One shot to get it right. The first 90 days decide the next 3 years. We de-risk the set-up so your team skips the culture clash and reaches flow. Run it pre-launch, or about 6 months in.

  • Readiness Assessment - the risks specific to your team, surfaced
  • 90-Day Flow Set-up - agreed ways of working embedded while habits form
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03
Cross-Cultural Consulting

Applied

M&A integration, leadership onboarding, graduate programmes. Same rigour, applied wherever cross-border friction shows up.

  • M&A integration - aligned from day one
  • Leadership & graduate programmes - the right habits from the start
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04
AI in Flow

AI in Flow

AI adoption stalls on the human side, not the tech side. 70% of AI success comes from people and the way they work (BCG, 2026). We find what's really holding AI back, across levels and locations, and turn it into action.

  • Free 2-minute quiz - your team's human-AI profile
  • Pilot - uncover why the value isn't showing, then act, with owners
  • Scale up - roll out what works, with a 90-day check
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The same process, every time.

Proven.
Repeatable.
Measurable.

The same rigour underpins every engagement in India. It starts with listening. It ends with evidence your leadership can act on.

01

Diagnose

We talk to your delivery teams, managers and client-side contacts - together and separately. The gap between what each side says is where the friction lives.

02

Design

Built entirely around what we find. Every session hits your friction points directly, so nothing gets fixed that isn't actually broken.

03

Track

Measured against KPIs you already own. Clear evidence for leadership, and ammunition for what comes next - a renewal, or a performance review.

04

Embed

A structured handover so new habits stick after we leave. Most clients own it fully within 90 days.

What Indian delivery organisations gain when friction is fixed

↑ ~40%
productivity recovered when cross-border friction is actively managed - McKinsey, BCG
↓ Rework
measurably reduced within weeks of the Friction-to-Flow Workshop
↑ Trust
renewal and performance confidence increases when clients or global HQ see a structured operating model, not just capability
↓ Attrition
talent stays longer when cross-cultural friction stops making their roles unsustainable
From the room

From people who
were in the room.

A space was created to discuss things openly, identify issues, co-create a solution and implement it. I've not seen, in my career, anything like this.

Hemant Puthli
MD & Partner

If the rest of the industry was to adopt this innovative approach, I think they would have much more longevity from their teams, a much better, more trusting relationship with their delivery partners and a happier workforce all round.

Fiona Hamilton
Product Owner

Together Global redefined and replicated our Agile culture overseas. The Indian delivery teams are now amongst our highest performing. What was a friction point became a competitive advantage.

Steve Townley
Chief Information Officer
Recognition
Global Sourcing
Association
Sourcing industry "new best practice."
Kerry Hallard, CEO, GSA – independent industry body
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solvable
problem.

  • 01Contact us to arrange a call.
  • 02Tell us what's happening with your teams.
  • 03We'll send a clear proposal.
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