https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/05/22/boeing-outlook-spending-airbus.html
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Boeing is doomed
Holy F. Learn how to read an article. Not just cut and paste headlines. Thanks.
Boeing sends out teams to investigate inappropriate actions and faulty products
From Suppliers.
Then Boeing persecutes and terminates those teams who find the problems and
Report back accurately and truthfully.
How many of us have been told, “You’re too honest”
Boeing’s Management is Deranged and Criminally Insane, Period.
What Boeing needed to do 20 years ago, but unfortunately didn’t because of arrogant, clueless, and delusional leadership, based on the famous Bob Bogash “Not Acceptable” discussion by seasoned Boeing experts of the time:
- Failure to hold people accountable for meeting program schedules and milestones.
- Creating a matrix organizational structure that leads to confusion over responsibilities and Problem No. 1
- Fostering a "Yes-Man" environment under the guise of "Teamwork" inhibiting free voicing of legitimate program and technical concerns. Fear in the workplace in an atmosphere that preaches, indeed brags, about the lack of such.
- Foolishly discarding decades of systems knowledge, hard-won, in exchange for un-proven, often computerized systems, embraced for their so-called "newness" and hi-tech hype. Total failure to even recognize the value of legacy systems.
- Failing to recognize the high value of experience present in the seasoned workforce, replacing that knowledge with promises from in-experienced people who have to learn on-the-fly, and reinvent the wheel.
- A senior management without technical skills to sniff out problems, combined with the elimination of a layer of seasoned technical people who, in the past, have acted as advisers to make up for that deficiency.
- Embracing the corporate culture, and promoting people representing that culture, from a merger partner that was, in fact, a failing enterprise, with a long history of the sorts of problems that have now been transplanted into Boeing.
- Promoting people without skills, experience, or abilities to achieve some sort of politically correct employee 'face' for the business enterprise at the expense of complete loss of program execution capabilities.
- A very poor job of mentoring younger, less-experienced employees, and passing the baton from one generation to the next. This was especially exacerbated during the 1995 "early-out" mass retirement process.
- A total meltdown in our ability to manage our supplier base; to coordinate design and build requirements; to assist them in their execution; to monitor their progress in a timely manner; and to intervene in advance of a crisis.
New Audit Reveals NASA Paid Boeing $2 Billion More Than SpaceX for Same ISS Mission
https://observer.com/2019/11/nasa-audit-boeing-spacex-iss-ccp-mission-spacecraft-budget/
In 2014, NASA awarded two multi-billion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX, commissioning them to each build a spaceship system that can transport U.S.
astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), in a move to end the
space agency’s sole reliance on Russian Soyuz vehicles for this mission.
The two companies are essentially building the same project for NASA,
but for dramatically different prices.
The contracts, awarded under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP),
Are valued at $4.3 billion for Boeing and $2.5 billion for SpaceX.
But the preferential treatment doesn’t stop there.
On top of Boeing’s already higher contract amount,
NASA agreed to pay the company nearly $300 million extra, a new audit by
the space agency’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found.
Like GE, I don't see Boeing turning this ship around. The question is, who buys them afterwards?
This Is All Airbus Propaganda.
We here on the Boeing Board know better.
This looks bad to an outsider but in reality its part of our grand secret plan.
In the end Airbus will come begging to buy us, elevating Boeing to
Number once again.
That's All Folks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Db9434BoGkNQ
Sad the amount of mismanagement that has gone in for some time. With the recent news they were moving the HQ to DC and not Seattle it confirmed for me there is no path forward. Hard to see a storied company make so many wrong mistakes….