Documentary

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

2022 · 2022

What happens when cost-out programmes and buybacks are run against an engineering culture. The lag between the decision and the damage appearing is the part worth sitting with.

• Capital allocation
• Leadership
• Incentives

1 idea from this documentary

• Post-mortemCapital allocation

  Financial discipline applied without limit eventually eats the engineering

  Cost discipline has a limit, and the cost of crossing it arrives years after the reward for approaching it.

  Any capital allocation discussion where the case for cuts and buybacks seems unanswerable, and any post-mortem on an engineering or safety failure.