One of the reasons Boeing moved corporate headquarters to Chicago was “…to get the engineers out of the board room”. It looks like that was a bad move. The 787 is in deep trouble, the 747 -8 is way behind schedule and they can not even hang a boom on the 767 without botching it (reference the badly delayed Italian KC-767 program).
With regard to the the 787, it may not just be the physical building of the airplane that is at issue. A lot of engineering work was also farmed out, so certification could be interesting.
Boeing. The GM of the skies.