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Boeing Company Swot Analysis

Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group: Decision 2001

I. Current Situation
A. Financial Performance – During the past five years, revenues continued to increase, but organizational difficulties caused erratic profitability and due to the engineer's strike, it had come downhill in 2000.
B. Strategic Posture
1. Mission-Vision – For people to work together as a global enterprise for aerospace leadership.
2. Objectives – The Company wants to dominate the world's aircraft market as it once used to.
3. Strategies –Boeing want to run a healthy core business by leveraging strengths through new products and services and by means of opening up new frontiers.

II. Strategic Managers
A. Board – The board is comprised of twelve members. All of them had only been a member of the board for the past two decade, most of them from years 2000 up to date. The members come from inside and outside the organization.
B. Top Management –When the Corporation merges or buys out other companies they often keep on the key players from the new acquisition. The Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Boeing Commercial Airplanes is Philip Condit.

III. External Environment
A. Societal environment is outstanding. Commercial airplanes have made international travel so economical that it became a common event for both pleasure and business.
B. Task Environment is very competitive. Airbus Industries had been its main competitor even though Airbus has only entered the industry late into the century.
Authorities in this industry is very strict with what manufactured airplanes they approve of which is understandable given the high risk entailed with the airplanes especially the commercial ones. Even with the mergers and acquisitions done by the company in airplane industry, there is a strict steps that need to be done before pushing through it and to be approved by it.
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