This is an HTML version of an article that ran in Real Estate Forum. To see the story in its original format, click here. Before that first Dreamliner rolled off the line in North Charleston, though, Boeing learned an expensive lesson in the limitations of outsourcing. "We gave work to people that had never really done this kind of technology before, and then we didn't provide the oversight that was necessary," Jim Albaugh, then CEO of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes business unit, told a Seattle University audience in 2011, according to the L.A. Times. The extensive farming-out of work to both domestic and overseas vendors was largely to blame for a project that went billions of dollars over budget and three years behind schedule. WHAT'S BEHIND RE-SHORING CHINA IN DECLINE? GROWING AWARENESS
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Paul Bubny
Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
