Every few years, a Marketing Ops team looks at its technology stack and has the same realisation you get when you open the “misc” kitchen drawer. Nothing in there is individually a bad idea. It’s just… a lot. Half of it does the same job. Some of it hasn’t been used since the last merger. One item is only kept because a former colleague swore it was “mission critical”, and nobody’s brave enough to ask what it actually does. That’s your MarTech stack.

If your stack has grown faster than your confidence in it, governance isn’t a “nice to have”. It’s the discipline that makes everything else work properly again.

Not every Marketing Operations success story is about doing more. Some of the most valuable work is about stopping waste before it quietly drains budget, time, and credibility.

There is a persistent belief that somewhere out there exists the perfect MarTech stack. The right combination of platforms. The right integrations. The right configuration. Once it is all in place, everything will finally click. Reporting will make sense. Campaigns will flow effortlessly. Data will be clean. Teams will move faster. Arguments will disappear.

MarTech is not the problem. It never was. It is a mirror. It reflects the choices, compromises, and assumptions baked into your operating model. If you do not like what you see, replacing the mirror will not help. Fix how you operate, and the stack will suddenly feel a lot less broken.

A CDP can unify fragmented data, orchestrate personalised experiences, and generate actionable insights. But like a tightrope act without a safety net, it only works when the right foundation is in place, the people, processes, and data that make the whole show run smoothly.

If you haven’t run a MarTech audit in over a year, you’re haemorrhaging money. You’re handing over 25% of your entire marketing budget to stuff that’s mostly idle.

Too many CDP rollouts start with “let’s integrate everything,” instead of “let’s integrate what matters.” The result? Frankenstein stacks, overwhelmed marketers, and AI models trying to read tea leaves made of glitter.

According to a recent Gartner’s MarTech Survey, average MarTech utilisation has dropped to just 33%, down from 58% in 2020. That means two-thirds of the platforms and tools marketing teams are investing in are sitting idle or underused.

Mergers can feel like a tidal wave. But they’re also one of the only moments when you get a mandate to change everything - and build something better. As a MOPs leader, you’re not just keeping the lights on. You’re rebuilding the engine, in real time, while the car is still moving.

When two companies merge, most of the headlines talk about market share, valuations, and synergies. Maybe there’s a stock bump. Maybe there’s a press release with the word “transformational” used at least four times. But behind the scenes - usually just out of earshot from the boardroom - there’s a group of people quietly hyperventilating. They’re the ones staring down two overlapping, bloated, often contradictory MarTech stacks and wondering: how the hell are we going to

Somewhere inside your organization is a marketing technology stack that’s bigger, messier, and more haunted than anyone wants to admit.

MarTech audits aren’t fun. They’re just necessary. And the longer you put one off, the worse it gets.

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