June 18, 2026
Organized Around Outcomes: How to Scale Complex Hardware Without Silos
<p dir="ltr">When companies are trying to scale complex hardware, the work can easily be split into separate lanes: engineering, production, supply chain, quality, sales, and operations. Each team has its own tasks, its own constraints, and its own way of measuring progress.</p> <p dir="ltr">Keith Flynn's point is that speed comes from organizing those teams around the outcome they are trying to deliver, not just the work sitting in front of them. They are the ones who organize teams around outcomes, give people clarity on the result they are trying to achieve, and build the systems that help them get there.</p> <p dir="ltr">Keith currently serves as Senior Vice President of Production at Anduril, where he helps scale advanced defense manufacturing for a new generation of hardware systems. He brings more than 20 years of experience across manufacturing, engineering, robotics, automotive, and new product launches, including leadership roles at Tesla, Starsky Robotics, and Toyota.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">What You'll Discover In This Episode </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">The relationship between speed, risk, and execution in modern manufacturing</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why outcome-driven teams move faster than task-based organizations</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How Anduril thinks about production as part of the product from day one</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why software-defined capability changes how defense hardware can be built</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">The role digital tools play in connecting engineering, supply chain, production, and quality</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">When stable demand becomes one of the most powerful tools for rebuilding industrial capacity</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the Guest</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-flynn/">Keith Flynn</a> is the Senior Vice President of Production at <a href= "https://www.anduril.com/">Anduril</a>. He brings more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing and engineering, with deep expertise in developing and scaling innovative hardware systems across the automotive, robotics, and defense sectors. Before Anduril, he held leadership roles at Tesla across engineering, operations, research and development, new products, automation, and technologies. He also led the hardware engineering organization at autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics, and earlier in his career, supported new vehicle launches and manufacturing at Toyota.</p> <h1 data-renderer-start-pos="1149"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">About Your Host</span></h1> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1160"><strong>Alex Krutz</strong> is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1350">Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1599">Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1981">You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1981"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Resources</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise? </p> <p dir="ltr">Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1981">Visit <a href= "http://thefactorydoctor.com">TheFactoryDoctor.com</a> to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.</p> <p> </p>
