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One question in my mind is: what would it take for the old "engineer" faction of Boeing to come to the top again? Or is this unrealistic as the "management/cos
by caycep 7y ago
One question in my mind is: what would it take for the old "engineer" faction of Boeing to come to the top again? Or is this unrealistic as the "management/costcutting" faction is just inherently better a "management" politics to ever be dislodged?
Failing this, what is the likelihood a competitor with old-school Boeing values might emerge to compete, in such a capital-heavy industry?
- mechhacker 7y agoI'd love to help a group interested in that if I could mostly work remote, as it's an area I'm skilled in. It takes years to set up the infrastructure, though. They'd need to build up to it on smaller scale things first 0 to narrow or wide body production line is a huge undertaking.
- totalZero 7y agoIt's basically impossible for a competitor with "old school" values to emerge. The regulatory hurdles and foreign competition are daunting. There are only two companies in the world that can do what Airbus and Boeing do.
- internet_user 7y agoWhat are the two other companies? Lockheed and Tupolev?
- favorited 7y agoThey didn't say "two other," just "two."
- vb6sp6 7y agoelon has entered the chat
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y agoThis MBA vs engineering dichotomy is a myth. One of the people with a lot of responsibility for this disaster is the Chief Test Pilot, who is a Navy Veteran, engineer and prototypical flight enthusiast. That didn't stop him from lying to the FAA. Airplane travel today is also about 70x safer than it was in, say, the 1960s, on a per-passenger-per-mile basis. Despite Boeing's trouble, plane construction, pilot instruction, and flight management have all done a rather good job. There are no "good old times", at least none better than the present.
- peeters 7y agoWasn't the ex-CEO also a Boeing engineering lifer?
- johngalt 7y agoA miracle. Bringing focus and engineering discipline back to a large company that has atrophied is difficult bordering on impossible. A change like that would be an uphill battle the entire time. Fighting against all the careerist empire builders. It's easier to start over with a new company than it is to fix an existing one. There are a few instances of a true turnaround from a company that has lost the plot, but even in those instances it looks like jettisoning large portions of an organization and re-growing it along a new axis.