Unfortunately, the kind of cross vertical perspective takes an organizational maturity (in insight and skills, not age nor ossification) that is seldom achieved

Unfortunately, the kind of cross vertical perspective takes an organizational maturity (in insight and skills, not age nor ossification) that is seldom achieved or maintained. Even when there is some support for such a perspective, not infrequently the people who demonstrate and exercise it are denigrated in various fashions. Their contributions may ultimately be valued in individual cases, but exercising the roll can be akin to "fighting the tide", and often there is no formal role within the organization that (actually) embodies and defines what they are doing.