Mike Bair, the Mulally protégé who led the program, talked up the benefits of outsourcing more work, saying that when Boeing had sent specifications to its electronics supplier for the 777, the document was twenty-five hundred pages long. “There wasn’t a lot left to the imagination,” he said. “We told them exactly what we wanted in excruciating detail,” he said. Distressingly, the equivalent specification document for the Dreamliner was just twenty pages.
