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When companies outsource IT, they usually do it for one of two reasons: they want to save money or free up their internal team to focus on “more strategic work.”

For years, Managed IT conversations have revolved around tickets. How many came in, how fast they were resolved, and what the average response time looked like.

For a decade, “digital transformation” was the ultimate goal. Companied want to move to the cloud, modern legacy applications, and automate ancient processes. It became the corporate mantra of progress.

A common complaint marketers have is delays when trying to launch a campaign. The campaign kickoff was two months ago, with a creative brief based on a brilliant idea that the executive team seemed to support. But somehow, the launch is still pending approval.

It’s October, and the marketing department is starting to look more like a war room than a workspace. Campaigns are running late. Reports don’t match between analytics and CRM. Someone’s yelling about broken GTM tags. And some of the conversion goals are duplicates apparently.

Every IT manager has faced shadow IT, the software, systems, and tools employees use without official oversight.

Most companies want their IT to be lean, with fewer systems, costs, and surprises. But quite often, “lean” turns into “bare-bones.” Corners get cut, updates are delayed, and maintenance becomes reactive instead of strategic.

Just as things on the tariffs front got quiet for a few months, “Liberation Day 2.0” happened on Oct 10, 2025. No doubt, many business leaders will be worried about uncertainty again, and rightly so. And it’s another clear example why agility beats efficiency in uncertain markets.

Private schools used to compete primarily on academics, reputation, and community. Today, the competition has expanded.

The veterinary clinics is a very interesting sector at the moment thanks to industry consolidation and large companies with deep purses buying up small clinics or small networks.