10 to 1 Boeing’s troubles are due to MBAs with no technical chops running the game, not due to any deficit in today’s engineers. It’s an old, old story. Tech company gets big, and bean counters shove people with actual engineering and product development skills to the side, with predictable results.
Boeing had Nikki Haley on the Board of Directors.
They gave her all the tough engineering and project management issues.
She told the workers if they did not perform better she would assassinate them all.
Lol.
Don’t discount moving HQ to ChIraq.
Don’t discount moving Boeing HQ to ChIraq.
Then add to that offshoring of software engineering and testing. Like most big companies, Boeing thinks good enough—at best—is more than adequate to get the job done. My last company, also a Fortune 100 company, has its documentation done in India and its copyediting done in Romania. Good enough, at best, again.