Wow Boeing is desperate for "The Old Brain Trust" to come back

[Flat Six]

Originally Posted by jcwade

DEI is not the main problem at Boeing.
It is MBA's chasing the god of shareholder value instead of Engineers running the company and making the best possible product.

Clearest mission statement I've ever read:

"We shall build good ships here. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must. But always, good ships."

Collis P. Huntington
Newport News Shipbuilding
1886

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

can't pick one. one is a response to the other. after 30 years of cashing out value by hollowing out your engineering and manufacturing, you have to hire them back to fix it. you have to rebuild those departments.

Or you break it up, sell off the profitable stuff, merge, outsource or fold. Either way, the stockholders win.

It is very hard to replace the knowledge lost - time is not your friend and the work environment isn't about staying and growing. It will cost money too, much easier to buy, sell or trade.

[Rusty Heap]

Quality, Cost, or Schedule...............and you can only pick 2 out of the 3. Real World.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Quality, Cost, or Schedule...............and you can only pick 2 out of the 3. Real World.

Picking one comes at the expense of the other two always.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Quality, Cost, or Schedule...............and you can only pick 2 out of the 3. Real World.

Yea it is all aerospace, although in my corner of the world schedule is king.

But I am very happy to not be with Boeing anymore. I can’t imagine what the morale is at the lower levels.

[Superman]

Originally Posted by jcwade

DEI is not the main problem at Boeing.
It is MBA's chasing the god of shareholder value instead of Engineers running the company and making the best possible product.

Yup. Cutting costs as a way of boosting short term profits.

Originally Posted by Dixie

Lol, Boeing can't be going to hell by shortchanging engineering, *and* desperately hiring retired engineers...

Honestly? I think that's exactly what they are doing.