Location & Feasibility Strategy
The location decision outlives every other choice a capability center makes. Salary curves, attrition rates, talent depth in your specific functions, infrastructure reliability, and state incentive regimes vary enough between Indian cities to move a center's five-year economics by double-digit percentages — yet most location decisions are made on familiarity: the city where the consultant has an office, or where a board member once had a good experience. Bangalore is the answer to many questions; it is not the answer to all of them, and its costs say so.
Our feasibility work replaces familiarity with evidence. Talent supply is analysed for your actual roles — not 'engineers' but the specific stacks, seniorities, and volumes you will hire; cost models cover fully loaded reality: salaries with realistic premiums for your brand's market position, facilities, attrition replacement, and the management overhead distance imposes; and emerging hubs are assessed honestly against established ones, because tier-two arbitrage is real for some functions and a false economy for others. The deliverable is a defendable recommendation with numbers, not a brochure.
What this covers
- City benchmarking across talent depth, cost curves, attrition, infrastructure, and ecosystem maturity for your functions.
- Role-level talent-supply analysis: can this city hire fifty of your specific profile in year one?
- Five-year cost models: fully loaded, attrition-adjusted, scenario-tested.
- State incentive assessment: what is actually collectable, versus what is announced.
- Site strategy within the chosen city: micro-market, building class, and expansion optionality.
Who needs this
Global firms choosing their first India location; enterprises adding a second center and questioning the default city; and boards that want the location decision documented well enough to defend in three years.
How we deliver
- Role-level talent analysis: can each candidate city hire your profiles at your volumes?
- Five-year cost models: fully loaded, attrition-adjusted, scenario-tested.
- Written recommendation with the evidence base your board can interrogate.
Why A2 Consultants
Our feasibility work is bought by companies that suspect the default answer — we have no office to fill in any city, and our models have steered clients both toward and away from the obvious hubs, on numbers.
Engagement & what to expect
Feasibility engagements run six to ten weeks: talent-supply analysis for your specific roles in the opening weeks, cost modelling and city visits through the middle, and the written recommendation — evidence base, five-year models, and site strategy — concluding the exercise. Your team participates in structured checkpoints so the recommendation arrives pre-socialised rather than as a surprise. Where the decision proceeds, the feasibility work flows directly into build planning; where it does not, the analysis stands as the documented reasoning a board revisits when circumstances change.
You will live with this decision for a decade — spend six weeks making it on evidence.