Boeing 787's design and manufacturing supply chain was much more than ever before for a Boeing plane spread across all continents and countries known to be major buyers of airplanes or manufacturers of plane parts, as described in the following article posted in the Resources page of this website:     

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atabkamprofessionalservices.com%2Fupload%2FBoeing%2520787%2520Outsourcing%2520article%2520-%2520Feb%25202011.

Business Process Management (BPM) and its affiliate management technologies like Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has taken the business world by storm  over the last decade and has underpinned some of the most successful business transformations in history. Some commentators went as far as predicting that companies that do not embrace BPM  and make it a cornerstone of their management practices  will not be able to compete and will ultimately fail.