Topic: Skunk Works
in Forum: C3 General Discussion

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The "Werks" was, and prolly still is in the tech center. It is NOT an office GM term for anything...just a term used by some of the "insiders" when working on "secret" projects that they don't want every Tom Dick and Harry to find out about.
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The term is also used to describe the south end of a north-bound skunk...
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Skunk Works is used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects. This term was made popular by a division of the same name within the Lockheed Martin corporation, because of their several successes at managing time-sensitive, complex projects. The term is also used analogously in other fields, especially business, to describe any self-contained, semi-autonomous work-group or committee that directly manages its own projects.


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I think that is also what he is calling his personal design business.
I remember now hearing the term being used by Lockheed ...but I think as far as the GM usage, it was used to describe the C5 team.
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