Do you have enough maneuvering room to implement your own idea? For example, if "keeping the sales pipeline full" is priority one at your company, can you inte

Do you have enough maneuvering room to implement your own idea? For example, if "keeping the sales pipeline full" is priority one at your company, can you interview some salespeople and apply your software skills to removing a sales pipeline constraint? If you could solve one bottleneck (see Theory of Constraints, The Goal, etc.), possibly just a small piece of work for you, it might have great leverage to the sales department, and then you would have much more freedom and respect in The Enterprise. Yeah, and maybe you could get a pony.