Getting companies back on the success track
Director, AlixPartners
Visionary founders and entrepreneurs can only get so far even with the most top-quality idea. When they encounter a growth-related challenge 鈥� or even crisis 鈥� and lack the expertise to solve it, Aditi Mahajan (TPR 2020) brings solutions.
Aditi is a director at , a global management consulting and business advisory firm. Her transformative consulting track record focuses on small or medium-sized businesses in the technology industry.
In one recent engagement, she helped a firm facing a total shutdown due to debt. Her strategy eliminated $100 million in unnecessary spending, a massive chunk of its $700 million revenue. The move saved both the company and hundreds of jobs.
鈥淢y job is working for the better of the company,鈥� Aditi says. 鈥淎nything that is getting saved through more efficient operations can be used for research and building more interesting products instead. That鈥檚 where things change, which is actually what incubates innovation.鈥�
Many of her engagements involve private equity relationships with ambiguities related to disruptions caused by artificial intelligence. Lately, the challenges and crises stem from the never-before-seen capabilities of AI, and the speed and scale of its disruptive effects. Even though the specific questions regarding AI are novel, the answers come back to classic business principles like cost alignment, efficiency and having good leaders at the helm.
鈥淚 am always trying to make sure that a company has the right resources for the revenue they need to deliver,鈥� Aditi says.
Story by Elizabeth Speed