User:Mahesh158/Mahesh Narayan

Summary Mahesh has 11 years of cross-industry experience. He started his career in Sales working for a web development company. He joined a reputed business school where he was involved in various research activities. He also worked for a start-up consulting firm before joining for an MBA at IIM Calcutta. He joined the Aditya Birla Group in the Corporate Management Services division (Internal Consulting team) where he worked on some high business impact projects.

He was with the Decision Support & Analytics Services Group (an advisory team focused on the providing strategy and analytics advice to senior management) at Hewlett-Packard. He was leading strategic projects in the area of Customer Analytics, Channel Analytics, Acquisitions, Divestiture, New Market Opportunity assessments etc.

He is currently working with the Management Consulting R&D Group of Accenture. Here he is responsible for conceptualizing and creating thought leadership, innovations, solutions & consulting assets

He has exposure to varied industries like Information Technology, Commodity Industries like Aluminium, Copper, Cement & Textiles.

He has master’s degrees in Commerce (University of Calcutta) as well as in Economics (University of Madras) and is an MBA with specialization in Strategic Management from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

He keeps himself updated on business trends and contributes his thoughts to management journals and business dailies. He is an Member of the All India Management Association (http://www.aima-ind.org/) and the Consultancy Development Centre (http://www.cdc.org.in/).

In his past time he teaches at some of the leading Business Schools in the country. He is a Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. He teaches courses in Strategic Management. He has also taught at Symbiosis, Pune & JD Birla Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Mahesh is also a frequent speaker at conferences & seminars

SpecialtiesHe has business consulting experience in the areas of Acquisitions, Market Opportunity, International Trade, Business Process & Information System Improvements.

Experience Manager Accenture Public Company; ACN; Management Consulting industry

September 2010 – Present (2 months)

Responsible for conceptualizing and creating thought leadership, innovations, solutions & consulting assets.

Manager Analytics Hewlett Packard Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

May 2006 – August 2010 (4 years 4 months)

He was with the Decision Support & Analytics Services Group of HP in Bangalore (Advisory group focused on the providing strategy and analytics advice to senior management)

He was leading a team to provide strategic insights to decision makers in the area of Sales Intelligence. Established the Consulting Practice in HP Analytics and led Corporate Strategy projects like M&A, Divestiture & New Market Opportunity Assessment. Led high impact projects for various business units in the Servers & Storage, PCs & Desktops and Printers organizations in the areas of Market Opportunity, Competitive Strategies, Market Entry, Strategic Alliances & Technology Trends. Projects involved significant senior management interaction and exposure to primary and secondary market research, development of business models & scenarios

Deputy Manager - Corporate Management Services Division Aditya Birla Management Corp Ltd Management Consulting industry

2004 – 2006 (2 years)

Corporate Management Services Division is an internal consultant of the Group. It serves as a think tank, an in-house research and business intelligence arm and a strategic consulting team.

I was working on Business Process Improvement studies, Business Systems Management Projects, Sector Studies, Studying International Trade Issues (WTO/FTA/Quota Phase-out/Trade Facilitation), Liaison with Govt and all stake holders, Researching, Identifying Opportunities and threats for businesses and developing suitable action plans and playing a key role in the Knowledge Management Initiatives.

Research Officer Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management Education Management industry

July 1999 – March 2001 (1 year 9 months)

Conducting Research

Business Development Exec Web Spiders Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry

January 1999 – June 1999 (6 months)

Business Development

Education Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta MBA, Strategic Management 2003

Mahesh has 2 recommendations including:

Sougata Ray, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Anurag Varshney, Student, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta University of Madras MA (Economics), Economics 2002

University of Calcutta M.Com, Finance 1999

St. Xavier's College, Calcutta B.Com, Accountancy 1993 – 1996