Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737...
by rapsey on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:33AM
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This is unfortunately a very naive point of view. An exec in charge of training is an exec in charge of a cost center. No one likes costs, so no one appreciates his job and his career is hampered.
Turning it into a profit center earns him respect and promotions.
Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737...
by mschuster91 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:31AM
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This is why some orgs did an "internal outsourcing" of their IT / training / other "shared services" - they bill the other departments for what they do. It both disincentivizes waste for the client departments and prevents the "IT department is a cost center" mindset, at the downside of a boatload of bureaucracy if every purchase of, let's say, a broken HDMI cable has to go through countless approval loops.
Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737...
by rdtwo on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:23AM
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Our department once tried to buy a 200$ fiber optic cable... it took 2 engineers, a manager and a director 9 months of paperwork to request one... and in the end we never got the cable.
A competent exec doesn't structure a business so that "everything is a profit center", as that drives specific behaviors, and you have to be careful about the accountability you put in place and how you're measuring those departments. Competent management should understand that.
That said, there's an annoying fetish from human beings to obsess over what's easy to measure, which is not always what's important. Profit being one of those things...