Gautam Adani has launched a three-year internal overhaul of the $32 billion Adani Group, personally directing a shift to Apple-style third-party vendors and a flatter management structure, according to livemint.com.
The initiative, which began quietly in 2023, is being run from the chairman’s office with help from global consultants and a newly formed internal task force. Livemint.com reports that the conglomerate is now inviting external manufacturers, logistics providers and engineering firms to take over functions previously handled in-house, while simultaneously pruning layers of hierarchy and creating fast-track leadership programmes for high-potential executives drawn from both inside and outside the group.
The move mirrors similar vendor-first strategies adopted by Apple and Tesla, and arrives as Indian conglomerates—from Reliance to the Tata Group—race to cut capital intensity and improve return on equity. By outsourcing manufacturing and logistics, Adani aims to free balance-sheet capacity for its expanding green-energy pipeline, which already includes 10 GW of operational solar and wind assets and a proposed $5 billion green-hydrogen cluster in Gujarat, according to filings reviewed by livemint.com.
Adani executives told livemint.com that the first wave of vendor partnerships will be finalised by December 2026, with pilot programmes in port equipment and solar-module assembly already under way. The next public checkpoint is the group’s annual general meeting in August, when shareholders will vote on revised performance-linked incentives tied to the new operating model.