What work should be located where?
Match work characteristics, customer needs, capability, risk, and collaboration requirements to location choices.
Where people sit matters less than how capability, knowledge, decisions, and accountability fit together.
We help leaders make deliberate global workforce choices that balance performance, economics, resilience, and long-term organizational capability.
Start a conversationThe leadership challenge
A global workforce is not a map of labor locations. It is a system for creating capability, coordinating work, and sustaining trust across boundaries.
Our perspective
Workforce strategy begins with the work—not the labor market.
Many global workforce decisions begin with cost, availability, or a preferred location. Those factors matter, but they are insufficient.
Leaders must first understand the work: what requires proximity, what can be distributed, where judgment sits, how knowledge moves, which capabilities are strategic, and how accountability will operate across distance.
A sound global workforce strategy balances economics with capability, resilience, coordination, culture, and the organization’s long-term ability to learn.
Questions we help leaders answer
Design the workforce as an operating system.
Which capabilities are strategic?
Distinguish what the organization must own from what can be accessed through partners or markets.
How should distributed work be coordinated?
Design interfaces, decision rights, routines, technology, and leadership for distance.
What risks are we concentrating?
Consider geopolitical, talent, vendor, regulatory, operational, and knowledge dependencies.
How will culture and trust travel?
Build shared expectations and relationships rather than assuming values transfer through communication.
How will the model adapt over time?
Treat location and sourcing choices as a portfolio that must evolve with strategy and capability.
Typical areas of focus
Connect location, capability, and operating design.
The precise work depends on the organization. These areas often need to move together.
Global workforce architecture
Define how employees, locations, partners, and delivery models fit together around strategic work.
Location strategy
Evaluate talent, economics, proximity, resilience, regulation, language, and ecosystem strength.
Capability planning
Identify current and future capabilities, build-versus-access choices, and development pathways.
Distributed operating models
Clarify interfaces, leadership, collaboration, accountability, and management cadence across boundaries.
Sourcing and partnership strategy
Use external capacity deliberately without giving away critical knowledge, judgment, or control.
Transition and adoption
Sequence movement of work responsibly while protecting service, knowledge, trust, and employee experience.
How we work
A disciplined approach to consequential change.
We combine clear diagnosis, leadership judgment, deliberate design, and practical implementation.
Start with strategic work.
We understand value creation, capability needs, dependencies, and the nature of collaboration.
Evaluate the whole system.
Economics are considered alongside talent, resilience, knowledge, risk, and operating complexity.
Design the operating model.
Locations, roles, interfaces, governance, technology, and leadership are developed together.
Build for evolution.
The workforce portfolio should be monitored and adapted as strategy, technology, and labor markets change.
What lasting progress looks like
A global model built for capability, resilience, and performance.
Clear logic for where work should reside
Better balance of cost, capability, and risk
Stronger coordination across locations and partners
Protection of strategic knowledge and judgment
More resilient talent and delivery options
A workforce portfolio able to evolve with strategy
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Global reach creates value
when the system holds together.
Talk with us about the work, capabilities, locations, and operating choices shaping your global workforce.
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