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"Boeing is going to reduce outsourcing, they have learned their lesson" (source ?)
The problem is, I suggest, that they did NOT learn the lesson.
Outsorcing is very complex and requires VERY good managers. Airbus Industrie (the first company name) started in 1970, so they have decades of experiences of making it work.
Boeing started large scale outsourcing with a complex new development and, it appears, made a series of mistakes. If they now pull away from outsourcing, they will have learnt nothing. They had the chance to learn from others and implement outsourcing and development slowly - perhaps with the 73NG range or a new 76 - but they chose to go the fast route and have failed. No one need be surprised.
I am not a particularly advocate of outsourcing but the fault is not outsourcing - but Boeing management and the company will be paying for this for a decade.
Last edited by PAXboy; 23rd Mar 2013 at 02:10.