An Approach That Flies | The Drucker Exchange

An Approach That Flies | The Drucker Exchange: "Boeing wants to get more done for less. To that end, the aerospace giant has created “innovation teams” whose job is to come up with ways to be more productive.

“Boeing started emphasizing employee-generated ideas . . . in the late 1990s, when the 737 plant began adopting ‘lean’ manufacturing techniques that were developed by the Japanese auto industry and embraced by U.S. car makers in the 1980s,” The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Numerous successes have been notched since then. One team “figured out how to rearrange their workspace to prepare four engines at a time instead of three,” the Journal explained, and “paint shop workers revamped their work routines and cut 10 minutes to 15 minutes off each job per worker.” So Boeing’s making more teams."

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