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The Skunk Works manager must be delegated practically complete control of his program in all aspects. He should report to a division president or higher. 2. Strong but small project offices must be provided both by the military and industry. Coolest Skunk Works. Skunkworks-Stealth-Aircraft.jpg (JPEG Image, 845 × 480 pixels) Papercraft_Skunk_Works_by_ninjatoespapercraft.jpg (JPEG Image, 750 × 600 pixels) 325px-Skunkworks.jpg (JPEG Image, 325 × 274 pixels) The Secret History of the U-2. Idea: Skunkworks. Inside Google's Secret Lab. Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google’s ( GOOG ) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite. The startup, Teller told Page, was seeing promising results, and, he added proudly, its prototypes had survived all recent tests intact.
Page approved Google X’s acquisition of Makani, which was being completed for an undisclosed amount at press time. He also had a demand. Skunkworks project. A skunkworks project is a project developed by a small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.[1] The terms originated with Lockheed's World War II Skunk Works project.
Definition[edit] Everett Rogers defines skunkworks as follows: "It is an especially enriched environment that is intended to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine organizational procedures. The research and development (R&D) workers in a skunkworks are usually specially selected, given special resources, and work on a crash basis to create an innovation. Skunkworks - Aprendiz.