Boeing

Education and medical benefits are good, but rapidly on the decline. Some extremely smart people and some excellent projects. The aging staff provides a great opportunity for growth.

About 40 percent of the workers carry the rest of the company. The company is farming out large amounts of labor to avoid the expense of internal overhead. Many of the workers are retired in place and lack motivation. Unfortunately, the complexity of the product requires much of their undocumented knowledge.

Strategically hire new talent and actively task older workers with training these new employees. Reduce overhead by simplifying job structure and eliminate non-value positions such as Supplier program managers and other non-product related positions. Lower overhead reduces engineering cost and makes the company more competitive. Simplify company structure and eliminate managers that do not have direct reports. Many of the issues revolve around extremely complex processes and non-value-added workers.