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Boeing’s Shift from Engineering Excellence to Profit-Driven Culture: Tracing the Impact of the McDonnell Douglas Merger on the 737 Max Crisis
Boeing’s journey, particularly with its 737 Max, reflects a dramatic shift in the company’s core values and operational philosophy, a change significantly influenced by its late-1990s merger with McDonnell Douglas. This pivotal event marked a departure from Boeing’s storied commitment to engineering superiority and a safety-first mindset, pivoting towards a business model heavily emphasizing cost efficiency and rapid production, often at the expense of product quality and safety. (www.airguide.info) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wow, this sounds a lot like what happens at Danaher acquired companies. Those companies made their mark in their businesses by having the best engineers, state-of-the-art designs, customer-first philosophies, and well-compensated employees. Danaher comes in and says "You're fat, and we're gonna ring some increased profit outta ya". Danaher is a profit-first, everything else a distant second, company. And so the result is just like Boeing's - questionable product reliability, dissatisfied employees, and loss of long-term customers. Weird how the execs at both companies can't connect the dots between engineering excellence (even if it costs a few bucks extra), product quality, employee satisfaction (again, even if it costs a few bucks extra); and the resulting customer retention rate and profitability.
I worked at the Boeing plant in Wichita late 80s to 1999, never would I have dreamed, even in a profit driven environment like that, they would do what they did in 2004, and sell out to a Company like SPIRIT!?!? Kind of REGRET that decision now???
I beg to differ. The steel company I work for, 33k employees publicly traded, safety is #1, then profits #2. When a fatality happen, one too more, we had a company wide stand-down.
Agree!
Business, politics and money. Sadly nothing will change.
DIE. Don't forget DIE.