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An Environment for the Development
of People, Diversity and Innovative Ideas
We devote
enormous energy to cultivating a workplace where Boeing people
from diverse backgrounds can learn, work together and be innovative
in a stimulating, creative environment of mutual trust and
respect, equality, opportunity and challenge.
A skilled workforce engaged in lifelong learning is critical to
achieving Vision 2016, and Boeing intends to have the best-educated workforce
in the world. With $68 million in funding in 2002, our Learning Together program
provides every Boeing person with company-funded opportunities to realize their
full potential through continuing education. More than 23,000 Boeing people challenged
themselves last year to seek further education through this program, one of the
most generous corporate tuition-reimbursement programs in the world. In all,
Boeing people hold more than 78,000 degrees in virtually every business and technical
field, from more than 5,700 schools worldwide. The workforce of Boeing’s
future will challenge the status quo and fuel new solutions.
The Chairman’s Innovation Initiative (CII) is fostering a
culture of innovation and generating new business opportunities through the entrepreneurial
ideas of our people. CII encourages innovators to develop new business-building
ideas and provides the support structure to help take them from concept to reality.
They often involve “next-square” opportunities such as applying existing
technologies to new markets or new technologies to existing markets. Since its
inception in September 2000, CII has received more than 750 new business concepts
from Boeing people. Several of these concepts are now well positioned to be “spun-out” as
separate business ventures. Many others have been “ spun-in” to Boeing
business units, where they are creating significant value for their customers.
Several more are providing additional value through successful licensing transactions.
In addition, CII projects are expanding our intellectual property portfolio by
generating new invention disclosures and patent applications.
By providing an environment that supports involvement, learning,
development and growth built on the cornerstones of strong values, teamwork and
empowerment, we are confident that our most important resource — Boeing
people — will flourish. This is the best investment we can make in our
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Innovation Initiative was established to stimulate and
support creative business ideas from Boeing people and
leverage existing technology and capabilities into entirely
new markets. A prime example is the Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle, an outgrowth of Boeing’s work for the
U.S. Navy, which is performing deepwater surveys for
oil and gas customers in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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