[OSList] question about aeronautics and self-organisation in the US

[christine koehler]

Harrison, Anne,

Thank you for the details about Boeing.

Kitty Hawk was in the 90's I belive.
My new friend talks about the 70's and about California. Do you know of any
hangar style building with moving walls over there ?

Chris,
Thank you very much for the Lockheed's Skunk Works. I looked at all images
of their website, could not find out an "open space" facility, but indeed
it could exist in such an environment.

>From there however I found something interesting  :
: http://www.stoneaerospace.com/about-us/about-us-design-philosophy.php
it says" Rather than having a “standing army” of permanent staff, with
their ponderous hierarchy of corporate business branches, divisions, and
groups we run things more like a “Mission Impossible” episode: the
designated project leader (always an extraordinary multidisciplinarian)
examines a portfolio of truly virtuoso experts in our world-wide network.
We typically select three individuals from this network -- a “hardware
guru”, a “software guru”, and an “embedded systems” guru to lead the team.
These are world-class experts with decades of real-world design experience
with concepts that have been turned into hardware that has gone into the
field and been used hard. They then, when needed, call in a second layer of
support staff from a wide variety of disciplines"
(see the picture, quite interesting :
http://www.stoneaerospace.com/about-us/pictures/SkunkWorks-2.jpg)

Then "Each expert is empowered to make instantaneous decisions, bring on
and release staff as needed, select systems and sub-systems, perform
component acquisition, and order fabrication by themselves. The majority of
the design work is done at distributed design offices"

Doesn't it sound familiar ?

It looks to me that when they deal with innovation and prototyping, indeed
they "build" a pretty much self-organized process.

:)
Christine


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Christine – I think there was such a building... Down at Kitty Hawk. Folks
> called the Wright Brothers did all sorts of weird thing in an old garage.
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> Hi everybody
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> I am discussing these days with a guy here who is a great story teller. He
> tells stories about creation and self-organization. He challenges
> corporations here to become as collaborative and innovative as the US
> aviation industry where , he says, they created collaborative spaces, real
> ones, buildings, where everybody involved in a project can come and
> self-organize to do what they have to do. They have done that as really as
> the 70's , he told me.
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> I am not very familiar with US aeronautic industry.
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> But this reminds me a lot about Harrison's story of the open space at
> Boeing about building doors. And I wonder if he does not refer to this
> story ...
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> So I would like to tap into your knowledge of this industry : did the
> aeronautic industry (or even one player in this industry) actually
> built/have  a building that enable all stakeholders to meet, collaborate
> and self-organize in a super efficient way ?
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> Or is this just a dream ?
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> ;)
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> Christine
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