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Across the enterprise, Boeing continues the transformation begun in
1996. This transformation remains rooted in our vision: “People
working together as a global enterprise for aerospace leadership.” With
key acquisitions and mergers, we broadened and diversified
our portfolio. We created a balanced Boeing — a global
aerospace company capable of weathering economic downturns
and poised for future growth.
Organized into five main business units — Commercial Airplanes,
Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Capital Corporation, Connexion by BoeingSM
and Air Traffic Management — Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace
company. While technical excellence and innovation remain key strengths, we gain
even greater advantages through technology transfer: we move people, products,
ideas and technology to where they are needed across the enterprise.
Three unifying enterprise mechanisms help drive essential technologies,
common systems and processes, information and change. First, Boeing Phantom Works,
our advanced research-and-development group, acts as both a catalyst and a conduit
to rapidly develop and disseminate advanced technologies and cost-saving processes
across the enterprise. Second, Boeing Shared Services Group allows business units
to focus on profitable growth by providing the infrastructure services required
to run their global operations. Third, enterprisewide process councils covering
all functional areas (for example, engineering, supplier relations and people)
ensure that we share and implement best practices, processes and tools across
Boeing.
Emphasis on Leadership Boeing
needs leaders ready to take advantage of the rapid rate of
change that is driving the global economy. We are committed
to providing them with the resources and direction to lead
from wherever they are within the enterprise.
The Boeing Leadership Center in St. Louis does just that, developing
leadership at all management levels. Nearly 11,000 Boeing managers and executives
have participated in development programs at the Leadership Center. As part of
an integrated, ongoing leadership development plan, we began bringing all executives
back to the Center in 2002 for a learning experience focused on strategy, marketing
and an involved workforce. We also introduced new functional excellence programs
for marketing and supplier management. In 2003, we will make Center programs
available to stakeholders in the entire Boeing enterprise — our customers,
suppliers and partners — in support of Vision 2016.
Boeing World Headquarters, now in its second year in Chicago, remains
strongly focused on company strategy. This year, we expanded the Office of the
Chairman and our two key management councils, the Strategy Council and Executive
Council (see page).
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depends upon courageous leadership. The Boeing Leadership
Center is transforming managers and executives — at
all levels — into more effective leaders willing
to adapt and learn as we move into increasingly dynamic
business environments. |
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