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CPG · Cross-Functional Teams

The Coca-Cola Company

Disrupting the largest cross-functional team.

100%
Team adoption rate
90%
Action plan completion
Top
Internal NPS score
The challenge

A large cross-functional customer team needed to become change agents inside the organization — but alignment kept dying in the handoffs between functions.

The engagement

Pre-workshop cultural assessment of communication patterns and decision rights, a custom disruptive workshop introducing exponential thinking, then implementation tracking against personalized action plans for each team lead.

What the audit found
  • Bottlenecks clustered at function boundaries, not inside functions.
  • Each function's local scorecard rewarded a behavior that slowed the next function down.
  • Post-assessment action plans succeeded where an owner and a reward were both named.
The outcome

Full team adoption of the shared operating language, materially faster cross-functional collaboration, and near-complete action-plan follow-through with a quarterly re-check cadence.

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