ii.
Skunk is facing crisis of
a. social acceptance
b. identity
c. finances
d. orientation
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The skunk works 1 approach originated at Lockheed Martin in California in 1943, when the aircraft corporation was tasked with developing a jet fighter prototype for the U.S. Air Force on a tight deadline of 180 days (Gwynne, 1997;Larsson, 2019). A team of designers were hand-picked for the project and worked secretly in a location separate from the company's main operations. ...
... The core features of skunk works rely on self-driven teams working with short time frames to achieve breakthrough innovation (Gwynne, 1997). More specifically, scholars (e.g., Bommer, DeLaPorte, & Higgins, 2002;Larsson, 2019) have identified seven dimensions that facilitate a skunk works team: (1) Isolation -the team is physically (and otherwise) secluded from the main organization; (2) Customer needs -the group seeks to critically analyse the needs of a potential customer/user; (3) Focus -the team seeks to direct attention towards the mission at hand; (4) Planning -the team devotes attention to up-front planning efforts; (5) Trusted project manager -a capable project manager is assigned on the outset with a clear task of keeping everything on track as well as pitching the work to key decision makers early to allocate the necessary recourses; (6) Cross-functional teams -the team seeks to secure a diverse set of talents in their respective fields; and (7) Leveraging overlaps -the team seeks to ensure that potential project overlaps are used to optimal capacity. The skunk works model has been traditionally implemented in large firms opting to compress the time it takes to research and develop technologically innovative products and services. ...
... These may be reasonable concerns, although to our knowledge there is little in the way of published empirical research that has examined these claims. In fact, Larsson (2019) argues for the adoption of skunk works as the principal way to solve quickly developing -and potentially temporaryorganizational challenges. Put differently, organizations may develop organizational capability in deploying a skunk works approach on demand, when they are in need of innovative and urgent solutions. ...