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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out as planned. Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). But this isn't the problem that the 787 is suffering from.