Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter: Applying Appreciative Inquiry to Collaborative Start-Ups

“How is it possible to achieve collaboration between a diversity of interests, when parties represent different organisations and there has been little or no common history of collaboration?”



This eBook is a case study in which a group of leaders set out to give birth to a new start-up organisation, using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) techniques. It studies the challenges faced by Lockheed Martin and the unique Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project.