Sentences with phrase «skunks works»

But as successful as skunks works were to the companies that executed them well, innovation and execution couldn't co-exist in the same corporate structure.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of «getting out of the building» and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

By the middle of the 21st century the only companies with skunk works will be the ones that have failed to master continuous innovation.

With the vantage point of the 21st century, we can now see that a successful skunk works — separated from its corporate parent, with its own culture, in control of its own R&D and distribution channel — looked much like a startup.

Skunk works will be the signposts of companies that will be left behind.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups.

We need to realize that skunk works epitomize innovation by exception.

That means that somehow we need to take the innovation that a skunk works removed from the core of the company and integrate the two.

To overcome that challenge, you have to give people the opportunity to participate in what's called «skunk works.»

Developed in the company's secretive Skunk Works division, SPIDER (Self - Propelled Instrument for Damage Evaluation and Repair) solves a big challenge faced by the airship industry: pinholes.

«We created SPIDER to allow for inspection of the envelope in parallel with final assembly and maintenance actions,» Skunk Works mechanical engineer Ben Szpak said in the video below.

But a series of smaller, challenging projects — perhaps modeled after prize competitions for developing «disruptive» technologies, or Lockheed Martin's famed «Skunk Works» facility that pioneered futuristic spy planes and supersonic aircraft — could help build esprit de corps, he says.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

Monsanto is also the financial backer of a 15 - person company called Preceres, a kind of skunk works it established just off the campus of MIT, where robotic mixers are busy stirring RNA together with coatings of specialized nanoparticles.

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is developing a compact fusion reactor small enough to fit in a truck and would generate enough electricity to power 80,000 homes.

Hidden away in the secret depths of the Skunk Works, a Lockheed Martin research team has been working quietly on a nuclear energy concept they believe has the potential to meet, if not eventually decrease, the world's insatiable demand for power.

Governor Snyder's secret «Skunk Works» group was an unintended peek into the money grab voucher advocates and others are attempting by privatizing the public schools.

The strong smells that made their way into the make shift domicile made the Lockheed R&D workers think of the foul - smelling «Skunk Works» factory in Al Capp's Li» l Abner comic strip.

When development of the LFA started in the Toyota skunk works some nine years ago, the idea was to create a new high - end aluminum - spaceframe sports car that would feature a V - 8 or a V - 10 and, most likely, a dual - clutch transmission.

A nondescript building behind a Wellesbourne Sainsbury supermarket contains Q Advanced Operations, a top - secret skunk works where Vulcan was born and which will produce, per CEO Andy Palmer's instruction, similarly bonkers low - volume projects at the rate of around one per year.

Fortunately, longtime speed merchant John Hennessey recognized the Caddy's noodle - armed feebleness and resolved to do something about it, creating the V700 package at his Texas skunk works.

Michael Kranefuss, head of the new Special Vehicle Operations skunk works, imports a turbocharged Zakspeed Capri sedan racer from Germany and reskins it as a Mustang.

One particular avenue of development being heavily pursued by Mercedes - Benz's fast - car skunk works is the individual apportioning of torque to each wheel; the process allows AMG to more finely tune the handling of its new supercar than with a typical fixed apportioning of torque.

P.S. I also love the term Skunk Works.

No, man, not sure who your source was but my source, deep within Amazon Skunk Works, says the next Kindle will be going in the opposite direction... it's about the size of a deck of cards and half the thickness.

Is it an extension of the project business or a skunk works project?»

Skunk Works ® is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

I've been told by several, usually reliable industry sources that the work at FSLR's «skunk works» is indeed focusing on CIGS, although no one at the company will (or would) confirm it.

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They will also initiate «Skunk Works» projects in which a small group within the firm is given greater autonomy in the name of rapid innovation.

At Alber's farewell dinner in early June, Lents presented Alber with an official «Skunk Works» baseball cap.

«John led our Skunk Works for 17 years,» Lents said.

NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are teaming up to create the Low - Boom Flight Demonstrator, an experimental aircraft that aims to usher in the era of commercial supersonic flight.

Today, all Silicon Valley giants run in - house innovation programmes such as contests, skunk works or hackathons to develop new concepts.

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The Program is designed to provide financial reimbursement to homeowners who choose to work with licensed wildlife control companies to remove skunks from their properties.

Eisenberg plays Mike, a long - haired nerd who works at a convenience store, smokes a lot of skunk weed and suffers from crippling panic attacks.

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes).

Sharing a common love for Alfa Romeo and its unique concept of cars as «mechanical creations» which transcend the realm of necessity to verge on that of the most authentic emotions and not just «useful means of transport», the «Skunks» have one goal: to create the Alfa Romeo of the future respecting the heritage resulting from the work and pride of thousands of people - engineers, factory workers and managers - who have taken turns in the factories, offices and on the race tracks.

There are a number of remedies that work for removing skunk smell from a dog.

Adrienne Kruzer is a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) and Level 2 Fear Free Certified Practitioner who has worked with opossums, skunks, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, reptiles, amphibians, a variety of bird species, coati, foxes, sugar gliders, flying squirrels, degus, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, rats, gerbils, pot bellied pigs, dogs, cats and more.

The Tru Catch Traps Model 30LTD works on cats, skunks, rabbits, and other small animals.

For many years the application of tomato juice was believed to be the only effective skunk odor remover, however, from first - hand experience it doesn't really work!

Skunk Off Liquid Soaker (squirt bottle) works to eliminate odors from anything that has been sprayed by a sSkunk Off Liquid Soaker (squirt bottle) works to eliminate odors from anything that has been sprayed by a skunkskunk.

I have a boston terrier and he got sprayed by a skunk and the tomato sauce does work but you have to let it sit on the dogs fur for id say about 5 - 10 mins otherwise no it does nt work very well and it wont take all the smell out you have to do this twice and then they shouldnt smell!!

Skunk - Off's proprietary technology works five ways through neutralization, absorption, bonding, inhibitors and residuals to instantly and permanently eliminate odor.

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The Main Street area of your town also accommodates new buildings, such as a Gardening Shop run by the happy sloth Leif, Club LOL which is a new nightclub hosted by Dr. Shrunk and DJ K.K., Brewster's Café which replaces The Roost from previous games, Tom Nook's new business scheme endeavor Nook's Homes — which works as a housing remodeling shop — and Kicks, the skunk, now has his own shoe shop appropriately called Kicks.