Insights, lessons, and leadership from The Management Consultant Issue #7 β 10 August 2025
Business & Technology Insight
The Rise of the βOps-Firstβ Organisation
Whether itβs DevOps, RevOps, or MarketOps β the smartest organisations build operations into design. Ops isnβt the tail end of delivery; itβs the start of resilience.
π‘ Operational thinking early saves firefighting later.
3 Things Iβve Learnt This Week
1. Cross-sector ops teams share more than they realise. 2. Efficiency is empathy for future you. 3. Reuse beats reinvention β every time.
Something Personal
We finally got TREKS Adventures live on YouTube! Launching it reminded me how creative projects thrive with the same discipline as consulting ones: iterate, improve, release.
Tool of the Week
Airtable β Excellent for lightweight ops tracking.
π‘ Tip: Use forms for stakeholder inputs to avoid inbox chaos.
This Week's Challenge
Where are you reinventing the wheel? Can you reuse instead?
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