{"id":1141,"date":"2006-10-08T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/youre-it\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T20:57:22","slug":"youre-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/youre-it","title":{"rendered":"You’re IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This conversation from BusinessWeek<\/a> explores the question, “Does IT Matter?”<\/p>\n

This article from BusinessWeek<\/a> about the software problems leading to Airbus’ $6.1 billion wiring problem answers the question pretty handily, I think.<\/p>\n

Both of our flights for this trip were on Boeings (767-200 and 757-200), and they were pretty smooth, except for the hydraulic problem I mentioned for yesterday’s flight home. When we touched down, I said to Amy, “Well, I guess the hydraulics worked, huh?” She joked that, when we looked back from the jetway, we’d notice that the plane had flat tires.<\/p>\n

Followup:<\/strong> Airbus’ CEO quit after 100 days on the job, because he couldn’t get authority to make the sweeping changes. What’s BW say today?<\/a><\/p>\n

The debacle has exposed a fundamental Airbus flaw. Far from the smooth-running pan-European group depicted in its public relations, its units in Germany, France, Britain, and Spain remain surprisingly balkanized, each clinging to traditional operating methods and cross-border jealousies. “It is still, in part, a juxtaposition of four companies,” Streiff [the departing CEO] told the French newspaper Le Figaro in the only interview he has given since resigning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This conversation from BusinessWeek explores the question, “Does IT Matter?” This article from BusinessWeek about the software problems leading to Airbus’ $6.1 billion wiring problem answers the question pretty handily, I think. Both of our flights for this trip were on Boeings (767-200 and 757-200), and they were pretty smooth, except for the hydraulic problem … <\/p>\n

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