Sentences with phrase «skunkworks in»

Waraniak is equally at home in an aerospace skunkworks in Pico Rivera, California, a boardroom in Mumbai, India, on a motocross track in Buchanan, Michigan, or on the Vehicle Technology Center stage at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

Not exact matches

The engineers showed her a curiosity that had been seasoning in their skunkworks since 2003.

As big firms in sectors like pharma increasingly fret over the overhead of internal skunkworks, says Tam, they are drawn to the «unbelievable» potential cost - savings of the open approach.

Nike runs a skunkworks for advanced manufacturing in Oregon, and in 2015 announced a partnership with Flex, one of its manufacturing partners, to develop new tech.

Invisible in both of these performances are the many kinds of knowledge, unseen plans, and backstage moves — the skunkworks, if you will — that allow a teacher to purposefully move a group of students from one set of understandings and skills to quite another over the space of many months.»

Ultimately, skunkworks may lead, over time, to a shift in the opportunity and achievement gaps prevalent in schools, leverage student voice, increase the use of higher impact strategies, shift staff and department meeting agendas to focus more time on learning, and begin developing new forms of problem - solving across a system that focuses primarily on learning.

Throw in the freedom afforded by low - volume runs of factory - built skunkworks specials and you find that the hot hatch is enjoying a golden age.

We suspect Jaguar won't ponder too long before handing an F - pace to their skunkworks SVO division to restore balance in the performance game with an an R or SVR version.

Toyota's skunkworks recently worked its magic on the Yaris GRMN, a new supercharged hot hatch that was launched earlier this year in Europe.

Speaking to our sister title Auto Express, boss of Mercedes in - house skunkworks AMG, Tobias Moers, has revealed the replacement for the range - topping A-class will see power eclipse 400bhp.

Mercedes is looking to show up in Detroit with several new semi-performance models hot off the presses from its skunkworks division, AMG.

The new skunkworks division is already tasked with creating 12 new performance models in the next five years, possibly including the new Focus RS, the Fiesta ST, and F - 150 Raptor.

Only 250 will be made by Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks with deliveries scheduled to commence in mid-2015.

Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division sounds very much like a clandestine organization secretly engineering skunkwork projects that would make the SR71 Blackbird look quaint in comparison.

The skunkworks project kicked off shortly after the Trailblazer's launch in 2002.

Once in a blue moon, Corvette celebrates its heritage by giving us the Grand Sport — a model that started out as a skunkworks project behind GMs back to make a standard «Vette race - ready.

After showing off this HP «slate» at CES in 2010 (which never shipped), and having a promising skunkworks tablet project «Courier» go to junk, Microsoft is in trouble.

This program, originally begun in 2005 within their outdoor styles, has moved beyond its skunkworks phase and is being steadily introduced across the line of more mainstream footwear.

Jeremy Hessing - Lewis at Skunkworks says that in highly competitive legal niches, «unfortunately, the trend is to sacrifice everything for the sake of SEO.»

Author: Based in Vancouver, B.C., Doug Jasinski, is a former trial lawyer who works as a strategist and copywriter with Skunkworks Creative Group, which he established.

With job titles such as Executive Director on Innovation, Chief Edge Officer for the Centre for the Edge and «lean law evangelist», there's a lot to be fascinated by in sections with headings such as «Stealth Innovation and Skunkworks».

Many of the examples given in the book were of change at BigLaw (including «skunkwork» initiatives that have come out of BigLaw) rather than examples of pure NewLaw initiatives.

Christensen observes that companies that survive and thrive in buyers» market do so by establishing skunkworks with the intention of «killing the mother ship» and disrupting themselves.

Then, in 2015, it became the first graduate from Google ATAP, the search giant's other skunkworks.