Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (And How You Can Too)

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In today’s world, every company is at risk of having a “Kodak Moment”—watching its industry and the competitive advantages it has developed over years, even decades, vanish overnight. The reason? An inability to adapt quickly to new business realities. Established companies are at risk, but it’s no easier being an agile startup, because most of those fail due to their inability to scale.




In Design to Grow, a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world’s largest companies. In this rare and unprecedented behind-the-scenes look, David Butler and senior Fast Company editor, Linda Tischler, use case studies to show how this works at Coca-Cola—and how other companies can use the same approach to grow their business. This book is a must for managers inside large corporations as well as entrepreneurs just getting started.
In today’s world, every company is at risk of having a “Kodak Moment”—watching its industry and the competitive advantages it has developed over years, even decades, vanish overnight. The reason? An inability to adapt quickly to new business realities. Established companies are at risk, but it’s ...

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David Butler is the vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Coca-Cola Company and is responsible for Coca-Cola's Accelerator Program designed to generate early-stage, high-growth start-ups. Under David's leadership, Coca-Cola has been recognized with numerous design awards, including the prestigious Grand Prix from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In 2009, David was recognized by Fast Company as a "Master of Design" and by Fortune for its 2013 Executive Dream Team. David is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation

Linda Tischler is an award-winning editor at Fast Company magazine, where she writes about the intersection of design and business. She helped launch Fast Company's design Web site, fastcodesign.com, which is now the web's largest design site. Prior to joining Fast Company, Tischler was an editor at Boston Magazine, where she initiated the New England Design Awards. She has also written for Metropolitan Home, the Boston Globe, and the Huffington Post, and has held editing and writing jobs at the Boston Herald and Microsoft's sidewalk.com.

A veteran of stage and screen, Peter Berkrot's career spans four decades, and his voice can be heard on television, radio, video games, and documentaries. He has been nominated for an Audie Award and has received a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and starred reviews.

David Butler is the vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Coca-Cola Company and is responsible for Coca-Cola's Accelerator Program designed to generate early-stage, high-growth start-ups. Under David's leadership, Coca-Cola has been recognized with numerous design awards, inclu...

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