If you want a change request processed quickly, you should get someone in upper management to help you herd it through the system. Literally, take your VIP with you, and walk up to the desk of each admin in turn. Say, "Don't wait for Tuesday's meeting--approve this right now." And then walk to the next admin and do it again. And then walk to the test guys and say, "Drop everything and test this now." And then gather up the six essential stakeholders for the CCB meeting and say, "Impromptu CCB meeting, right now in the hallway instead of next month. Approve this."
I've gotten software changes that usually take two months to trickle through the system through in a day. You have to spend all day doing it, though, and so does your VIP.
That works once. Then the next time you go to each desk, the person there has already checked with their boss, and says "my boss says you need to go through the correct channels and if you don't like it, you need to talk to him."
Wishful thinking. Each of those people has a thousand other things to do than to hold your hand all day long. Only works for things that are super-duper-important.
Additionally.. Going to "tell" on your buddies all the time and holding "the grownups" over them is terrible whinery. Everyone on the playground hates kids who do that.
I've gotten software changes that usually take two months to trickle through the system through in a day. You have to spend all day doing it, though, and so does your VIP.
But if it's really that important . . .