Better Requirements thru Less Paper

As a Systems Engineer it is always a battle to get the design engineers to create requirements. They just want to get to the design part or yell to the heavens that its COTs and we don’t need Requirements. Either way when we do get to the requirements I find that a lot of people are more concerned about the document than they are about the requirements. We spend a huge amount of time and money formatting, reviewing, printing, signing, and delivering a document that is going to change.
Modern requirements tools give us the ability to share and track all changes with the stakeholders without ever having to print a document. Things like digital signatures also help in this paperless process.
Point is that we would end up with better products if we stopped putting so much effort into a paper document and used that effort to write better requirements.