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  All Those Toys May Impact Innovation

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 1:18 PM on Oct 11, 2010

  A bit of history first. The Aviation Week Workforce Study expanded its breadth in 2004 as the result of a group of program executives voicing concern about the coming decade, the d... Read More >>

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  Raytheon/BHEF Model Simulates Education Policies

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 12:25 PM on Oct 01, 2010

  For the past few years, the Aerospace Industries Association and National Defense Industries Assoc. have worked to get a handle on all the different initiatives undertaken by ... Read More >>

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  Dialing Down the Stress-o-meter

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 12:55 PM on Sep 17, 2010

  Over the years, productivity across the aerospace and defense industry has improved significantly. Calling upon all the tools and processes at our disposal, we've managed to make g... Read More >>

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  Moving People Requires Deliberate Job Definition

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 12:26 PM on Sep 16, 2010

  During an AVIATION WEEK webinar on program management yesterday, a question came in that is simple but complicated. What, specifically, are the skills that differentiate a program ... Read More >>

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  What Worries Leaders Most

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 7:50 PM on Aug 31, 2010

  Around this time of year, AVIATION WEEK does research about what the primary triggers are in terms of industry leaders -- what's keeping them awake at night? What most concerns the... Read More >>

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  Kill Bad Processes

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 7:22 PM on Aug 30, 2010

  If there's a common lament among employees, it's that organizations can't seem to get rid of bad processes or policies. It's kind of like getting rid of entitlement programs -- we ... Read More >>

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  Production Workers High in Demand Next Two Years

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 5:29 PM on Aug 26, 2010

  Over the past six months Boeing has twice announced expansions of efforts surrounding its workforce and reach, related to composites. Earlier this summer, Boeing announced pla... Read More >>

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  Supply Chain to Follow Program Management Action Course

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 4:36 PM on Aug 25, 2010

  Over the past six years AVIATION WEEK has convened several Executive Roundtables around the topic of program performance -- how to improve it and how to assure the bench strength i... Read More >>

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  IT Careers in Upswing, but What Will They Be?

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 2:41 PM on Aug 24, 2010

  Among the job categories or careers posting the most promising results in this year's AVIATION WEEK Workforce Study was that of enterprise IT. These are the folks who keep the info... Read More >>

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  NASA Young Professionals

  Posted by Carole Rickard Hedden 1:52 PM on Aug 23, 2010

  NASA partnered with P AVIATION WEEK to conduct the young professional and university student survey this year, along with  Aerospace Industries Assoc. NASA had a clear objecti... Read More >>

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