Slow learners

[unixronin]

You'd think that by now at least some corporate top management would have figured out that outsourcing is not a magic genie lamp that instantly grants you riches and success.  And that, in fact, it can have definite sdrawbacks, especially where complex products requiring technical precision are concerned.

It seems Boeing hasn't figured it out yet, and the 787 Dreamliner is "billions of dollars over budget and three years late" because of it.  Boeing contracted out sub-assemblies that had to fit together with exacting precision, gave them approximate specifications and required them to create their own blueprints, then was shocked, shocked I tell you, when major sub-assemblies didn't fit together.

As if this wasn't already bad enough, in a crowning moment of awesome stupidity, Boeing contracted out all of the most profitable parts of the job, keeping mainly the relatively unprofitable final assembly.