Strategically, I’m not sure if the right first move is to try and appeal to leadership. I think this is an idea that needs some organic support. So I see this post as a seed, rather than an announcement of an agenda.
Sure, you gotta figure out what you want to ask these people to do and why you want to do it first, and if you hope to succeed it’s gotta be a solid enough argument that they buy it. The usual heuristic I’ve seen is that something has to be at least 3x better for people to pay whatever costs are associated with adopting something better (for some arbitrary version of adopting or replacing an old thing).
I don’t know that you have to wait for organic support, but organic support would be an indicator that you’ve got something good that you might be able to convince folks to switch to.
Sure, you gotta figure out what you want to ask these people to do and why you want to do it first, and if you hope to succeed it’s gotta be a solid enough argument that they buy it. The usual heuristic I’ve seen is that something has to be at least 3x better for people to pay whatever costs are associated with adopting something better (for some arbitrary version of adopting or replacing an old thing).
I don’t know that you have to wait for organic support, but organic support would be an indicator that you’ve got something good that you might be able to convince folks to switch to.