Leadership and the Future of Value Creation: The New PE Imperative

In its Ninth Annual PE Leadership Survey, AlixPartners calls on private equity investors and leaders of PE-backed businesses to achieve enterprise-value milestones, meet top line growth goals and protect margins, following a period of unprecedented turmoil.

Now is the time to deliver, according to Criticaleye's 2024 CEO Retreat Partner.

Key takeaways include:

Technology — artificial intelligence in particular — is disrupting PE industry business models and reshaping the leadership agenda, with implications for where value is being created in organisations and by whom.
There is a critical need for PE firms and portcos (portfolio companies) to build on the strength of their relationship and work together more urgently to develop stronger change capabilities — tactically, strategically, technically and culturally.

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