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Master

Experienced

Journey-people

Apprentices

University

Auxiliary

Students

Faculty

• Improved curricula

• Enhanced graduates

• Fresh ideas and methods

An Example of a Boeing KM “Community of Practice”

Aerospace Vehicle Configurations

Basic Premises

• Aerospace vehicles remain a core of Boeing business

• All the excellent technology and processes in the world are

useless without the necessary skilled and motivate people

to apply them

• Talented ‘designers’ [configurators = ‘aerospace vehicle

system architects’] are hard to come by–the skill

needs to be cultivated

Mentorship

• Technical Fellowship

• Technical peers

• Outside sources

  • Academe
  • Customers
  • Suppliers
  • Other

Education/Training Programs

Available to the entire Boeing community

One-on-One Mentoring

Aerospace Vehicle

Configuration Synthesis 699

Aerospace Vehicle

Configuration

Synthesis 101

Technical Fellowship

Technology Knowledge Sharing Forum

Strong ties to

other CoPs

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