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How did Philip Condit improve the assembly process at Boeing?
Condit studied Japanese automobile manufacturers, trying to imitate the efficiency with which Toyota and others manufactured soundly designed vehicles.
How did Philip Condit try to deal with backlog of orders at Boeing?
Condit pressed his divisions to speed up their manufacturing processes, but the assembly lines were still in the process of reconciling his new software with the old software, and the assembly lines backed up.
How did Philip Condit diversify Boeing's business?
Condit instead went looking for complementary matches to Boeing's core business of commercial aircraft.
When did Philip Condit start work at Boeing?
In 1965 Condit received an MS in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University and accepted a job at Boeing in Seattle.
What acquisitions did Philip Condit engineer?
He had Boeing buy Rockwell's space-related manufacturing business, and in December 1996 he engineered Boeing's takeover of McDonnell Douglas.
Why was Philip Condit criticized by Wall Street analysts?
for Boeing's seeming to have overpaid for McDonnell Douglas and for Rockwell's space business, as well as for the falling value of Boeing's stock.
How did Philip Condit save Boeing money?
Condit introduced numerous new manufacturing techniques and aircraft designs that later resulted in huge savings in manufacturing all of Boeing's aircraft.
What did Philip Condit do as president of Boeing?
As president from 1992 to 1996, he tried to unify the computer programs into one set of simplified off-the-shelf software that all Boeing's employees could use.
What change did Philip Condit make at Boeing in 2001?
On March 12, 2001, Condit announced that he was moving Boeing's headquarters out of Seattle. He said he wanted to keep management out of day-to-day business operations
What program did Philip Condit introduce at Boeing?
the Managing for Value Program, trying to make his employees more conscious of the desires of the marketplace. This made many long-time Boeing employees even more restive
What contributed to Philip Condit's downfall?
Boeing held on to 35,000 pages of proprietary Lockheed documents that had been used in a failed joint venture and were supposed to be returned to Lockheed. These documents gave Boeing an edge in bidding on rocket contracts
What new business did Philip Condit create at Boeing?
Since about 85 percent of the world's airliners had been built by Boeing, Condit began a new business dedicated to maintaining the aircraft for their owners, a business that had the potential to earn $74 billion a year.
