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As the chief technologist at Boeing Space Systems'
Huntington Beach, Calif.-based engineering
organization, Gene Rogers recently worked on a $300
million NASA contract to develop critical technologies
for a next-generation reusable launch vehicle.
Rogers' analyses, strategies, and marketing
approaches helped focus NASA's space launch
initiative on high-payoff technical solutions and
business models to improve the cost and safety of
delivering payloads and people to destinations in
orbit. His past work includes providing technology for
Mir Space Station's docking hardware. Rogers holds
five international patents.
"In a proliferated company that has as many
high-value product lines as Boeing, influence becomes much more important
than authority," Rogers says. "Authority imparts some measure of influence,
but influence also derives from reputation, visibility, ... technical breadth."
Current economic trends are imposing substantive changes, Rogers says.
"Large companies will eventually outsource everything except top
management. That will generate many more small companies that will be
linked electronically but not necessarily geographically. ... Career success will
stem from developing unique competitive skills, and allying with enterprises
that are effective integrators of competitive skills."
-- E.E.
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