In this episode, Manisha Tank sits down with Vikram Handa, Managing Director of Epsilon Carbon, and Vinay Shenoy, Managing Director of Industry X, Accenture in India. We find out how a global leader in the carbon black and coal tar derivatives industry is adopting data and digital technology as they take on the formidable challenge of net zero transition while maintaining and improving productivity in a weak economic climate.

Vikram shares how Epsilon Carbon's journey began, what wasn't working, and how an Accenture Innovation Hub workshop where he and his employees could see what other companies were doing and what they could learn was pivotal in adjusting their strategy. Vinay also talks about how Accenture worked alongside Epsilon Carbon to identify problems and co-create meaningful, step by step solutions.

But having employee buy-in is key to making it all happen. With Vikram's commitment to the cause, Vinay discusses change management at an idea's inception from a bottom up perspective and why involving every single person in the organisation in the process was the most important ingredient.

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