Boeing values information as the backbone to pandemic response
Taking a project management approach to its comprehensive COVID-19 pandemic response, Boeing’s Security & Fire Protection and Health Services business units placed collaboration, communication and actionable data at the forefront to make unified, informed decisions across the enterprise.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to make some tough decisions, and perhaps enterprises with widespread global reach have felt that pressure even more so. But Dave Komendat, Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO), Security & Fire Protection (S&FP) at Boeing and his team have not shied away from the difficult decisions, because it’s been those difficult decisions that have helped the company minimize the risk of exposure of employees to COVID-19 and of operational disruptions throughout the past year and a half.
Upon early warning of the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China, S&FP and Boeing’s Health Services team were tasked with co-managing the company’s Crisis Management Working Group (CMWG) and overall COVID-19 pandemic response for the enterprise. To navigate the Herculean effort, the CMWG team took a program management approach to orchestrate interconnected projects, processes and decisions that put employee safety at the forefront and enabled business continuity. And that’s no small feat for the world's largest aerospace company and manufacturer: Boeing employs more than 140,000 people across the United States in more than 65 countries around the globe and employees in every one of those countries has been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic.