Hints and tips:
...I think Citi’s skunk works passes the smell test. Banks traditionally race to secure new blood by pumping up starting salaries....
...Five decades ago, John “Mac” McQuown, a headstrong former farmhand from Illinois, led a team of brilliant iconoclasts at a Wells Fargo skunk works that cooked up ways to use newfangled computers in finance...
...HP’s invention of the personal laser printer four decades ago was the culmination of one of the most successful corporate “skunk works” projects ever undertaken....
...The corporation’s task will be creating and maintaining a long-term vision whose meaning and story aligns and directs the work of any team, whether it is an internal skunk works or an external start-up —...
...Prof Mauborgne says just telling executives confronted by a strategic challenge to “think out of the box” or “do a Skunk Works” (the separate unit set up by Lockheed Martin to develop next-generation fighter...
...Google has tried different ways of managing its big bets on new markets, including Google X, the “skunk works” for advanced projects that have included driverless cars and Google Glass....
...His strategy was the same as Lockheed’s “skunk works”, which developed the U2 and the stealth aircraft; or Scaled Composites, the company that designed the first private spaceship in the desert town of Mojave...
...Maybe they should have given it a cooler name, like a “Skunk Works”....
...Rod Hall, analyst at JPMorgan, says Nokia should adopt a “Skunk Works” approach to solving its weakness in smartphones – a reference to how Lockheed Martin, the US military aircraft maker, tasked small teams...
...“I hate to be the skunk at the picnic, but I’m really not all that excited about this,” said Sheryl King, senior economist at Merrill Lynch....
...The Washington Post’s answer was to create a "skunk works" team to rush through new products like this....
...This would be unremarkable in a research lab, where “skunk works” are quietly encouraged. But since when did big companies allow such latitude?...
...Lockheed Martin, the US aerospace company, set up its “Advanced Development Projects Unit”, nicknamed “Skunk Works”, during the second world war....
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