Comments on: Management mugged the Dreamliner http://www.aircraftnews.com/2009/07/12/management-mugged-the-dreamliner/ Breaking Aircraft News and Views Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:04:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mgiles http://www.aircraftnews.com/2009/07/12/management-mugged-the-dreamliner/comment-page-1/#comment-110 mgiles Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:54:12 +0000 http://www.aircraftnews.com/?p=457#comment-110 Hi Barrie. Yes I can only agree. Part of why I made the post is to increase the pressure on the bean counters and raise the consciousness of the shareholders about how the over view must never be lost and process always questioned. Cheers Michael Hi Barrie. Yes I can only agree. Part of why I made the post is to increase the pressure on the bean counters and raise the consciousness of the shareholders about how the over view must never be lost and process always questioned.
Cheers
Michael

]]> By: Barrie Anderson http://www.aircraftnews.com/2009/07/12/management-mugged-the-dreamliner/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Barrie Anderson Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:02:12 +0000 http://www.aircraftnews.com/?p=457#comment-98 In all types of industries there are similar problems, maybe not quite so media attractive but nevertheless similar. The problem is businesses today are run by accountants (bean-counters). They are great with absolutes like their beloved numbers but are out of their depth went they have to deal with the real world. Bean-counters are very important to a business. All the marketing and engineering activity would more often than not lead to loses and not profits if no one controlled the costs and revenues of a business, but dear 'bean-counters' you are not the ones who undertstand best what is happening in the business. Those are the engineers, both R & D and production, and the marketing and sales guys. I am certain that insiders know that the problems both at Boeing & Airbus were caused by bum planning because the bean-counters dictated to the guys doing the work impossible time frames. Barrie Anderson. In all types of industries there are similar problems, maybe not quite so media attractive but nevertheless similar. The problem is businesses today are run by accountants (bean-counters). They are great with absolutes like their beloved numbers but are out of their depth went they have to deal with the real world.
Bean-counters are very important to a business. All the marketing and engineering activity would more often than not lead to loses and not profits if no one controlled the costs and revenues of a business, but dear ‘bean-counters’ you are not the ones who undertstand best what is happening in the business. Those are the engineers, both R & D and production, and the marketing and sales guys.

I am certain that insiders know that the problems both at Boeing & Airbus were caused by bum planning because the bean-counters dictated to the guys doing the work impossible time frames.

Barrie Anderson.

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