Lean Principles: Innovative Collaboration with Suppliers ...

Jim McNerney, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing, shares his views on innovation and how lean principles have transformed Boeing. ...

... "The result is that we are able to help our customer spiral in new technology to the Super Hornet -- so it will continue to be relevant as its operators change their approaches to how they fight -- while at the same time it actually becomes less costly for them to buy. We are able to do that by applying Lean principles to the way we and our supplier-partners design the systems and operate our production facilities. " ...

Lean Principles: Innovative Collaboration with Suppliers: Via Boeing: McNerney: Innovation and the Global Economy ...