A skunk works effort is about boldly challenging the status quo. Flipping power dynamics. And disrupting your industry. Here’s how world-class organizations are creating serious competitive advantages with skunk works -- and how you can do the same. In this eBook, you’ll learn:
- what a "skunk works" is
- how other companies are using skunk works
- how to pilot a successful skunk works in your own organization
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Skunk Works, Defined
In business and in technology, innovation is a matter of organizational success or failure. While every company must mitigate risk, there must also be some freedom to try bold new ideas.
Skunk works are all about trying new things and failing forward towards innovative solutions. They are widely used in business, technology and engineering. Skunk works teams are given a great deal of freedom and autonomy without being tied up in bureaucratic red tape. Their projects are often highly advanced and secret, and they usually work outside the main corporate campus.
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