Is the 787 a failure ?

McNerney gets paid $400,000 per week for this? Yow!
| ...
| In 2008, as problems and delays continued to mount for the
| Dreamliner, Mr. McNerney toured several of Boeing's key
| suppliers. At one plant, which made part of the fuselage,
| he asked managers what was keeping their production line
| from moving. They told him they were waiting on a part that
| Boeing itself made. Mr. McNerney expressed surprise,
| according to someone present at the meeting.
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| Mr. McNerney has conceded that Boeing went too far in
| spreading out the 787's supply chain. "We got a little bit
| seduced that it would all come together seamlessly and the
| same design rules would be applied everywhere in the world
| and corners wouldn't be cut and financial realities
| wouldn't hit certain folks," Mr. McNerney told an audience
| at an event in September.
|
| To hasten completion of the complicated new aircraft, the
| CEO aggressively replaced key managers.
| ...
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--bks