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How? Simple, compare two solutions, write up advantages and disadvantages and present them. Since you have already made up your mind, you're biased to the thing you want anyway. Your boss will usually see your point and make the right decision.
I don't work at places that aren't already coughing up for the right tools. Literally. I have declined jobs because of this and would leave my current employer if this happened.
In my experience, the best tools are usually free.
Where as, on the other hand, if you can convince your boss to dish out $200 a month per user for something like Author-It, you get an extremely powerful system that does everything an authoring tool is supposed to. That's what I'm trying to do right now with my boss, convince him to switch (not from Sphinx, but from another cheaper software solution called Flare), and it's not an easy task.
I don't work at places that aren't already coughing up for the right tools. Literally. I have declined jobs because of this and would leave my current employer if this happened.
In my experience, the best tools are usually free.
Tools that cost 4 figures seem to sit "just about right" in the managerial mindset where I come from.
Some managerial cultures seem to really ( _really_ ) want to see cash laid out for anything before they will believe it holds any virtue.
I don't work at places that aren't already coughing up for the right tools. Literally. I have declined jobs because of this and would leave my current employer if this happened.
In my experience, the best tools are usually free.
* Where possible convert time into money.
* If it costs a lot of money, tell them how long it will take to recoup the investment.
* Give numbers.
* It is possible that your boss does not control the purse strings - so when you give your numbers make sure it's in a format that they can forward to their boss with few changes
I don't work at places that aren't already coughing up for the right tools. Literally. I have declined jobs because of this and would leave my current employer if this happened.
In my experience, the best tools are usually free.
To answer op: Nothing. Been trying for a long time, but no luck.
Give them an easy way to present it to their boss as their idea.
Depends on your position . I will just tell that my productivity will be decreased if I don't use the one which I believe is best.
Dangerous move. Not to say it isn't worth doing, but I've seen it get highly competent people fired. You need to understand that managerial training and experience turns nice people into suspicious, cynical assholes and that you're in danger of being interpreted as threatening, "I'm going to intentionally slow down if I don't get what I want". It's not what you mean, but it's how it will be read. Now, career stagnati…
Also, some companies will not budge no matter how you present it you are better off working around the heavy process that is slowing you down. Or switch companies. Or voice you frustrations into the void of the internet like I did. http://objectatrest.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/one-process-two...
Each company is different and there is no silver bullet. You need to find out what the managers value (money, productivity, looking good to their superiors) and build a case on that.