Every single human on earth would agree that this is what should be done, but this is naive. Of course it should be done. How do we actually accomplish it?

Every single human on earth would agree that this is what should be done, but this is naive. Of course it should be done. How do we actually accomplish it? good engineers will step out of their box Good engineers are often prevented or discouraged from stepping out of their boxes by organizational structures. Engineers also typically have intense workloads. Getting a solid week's worth of engineering done is hard enough as it is. Heroically crossing boundaries and leaping outside of organizational boxes to solve problems carries, at the very least, a high risk of falling behind on other work assigned to you. In defense of organizations (and those who create them), coordinating hundreds or thousands of people is really hard. How do you create a strong enough structure to avoid chaos, while simultaneously allowing people to step outside/across that structure when the need arises? It ain't easy. Also, and I don't know anything about how Boeing operates, but I suspect they already are successful at this to a large degree. Their record is not spotless, including some cover-ups they're guilty of, but it is very good. They would not be a world leader in aviation with highly competitive planes if they weren't pretty good at this stuff.