A Look at How Bad Tooling Creates Delays, Rewrites, and Wasted Creative Energy
You’ve got a deadline, a great idea, and a writer ready to roll. So why does publishing a simple landing page feel like asking for a raise in interpretive dance?
Somewhere between “draft complete” and “live on site,” your content disappears into a black hole of approvals, tech weirdness, and vague “we’re waiting on Dev” messages. You check the CMS. The page is still in staging. You ping someone. They’re out. You Slack someone else. They need permission from someone else. And now it’s Friday.
This isn’t on your team. It’s on your tools.
The Workflow’s the Problem, Not the People
Here’s the bit no one tells you: most delays happen after the content is written. Not because people aren’t doing their jobs, but because the system they’re supposed to be working in makes it nearly impossible to know what to do next.
When your CMS doesn’t have built-in workflows, you end up duct-taping a “process” together with spreadsheets, email threads, or 17 tabs open across Asana, Slack, and a calendar invite you forgot to accept. And what do you get? Confusion, misfires, and content that never ships.
Concrete CMS fixes this mess. With real workflow tools baked in, you can set up review steps, notifications, role-based permissions, and approvals that *just happen* without needing to chase anyone down.
Why “Just Ask Dev” Isn’t a Web Strategy
In a lot of orgs, publishing content still requires a developer. Not because the content is complicated, but because the CMS is. You can’t preview changes. Or you don’t have permission. Or the layout breaks if you sneeze near the HTML.
That’s not content management. That’s gatekeeping by accident.
With Concrete’s user permissions, you decide who can do what — not Dev. Want a contributor who can only edit a single page? Done. Want marketing leads to publish but not tweak design? Easy. You can even test changes in a safe draft before hitting publish.
Let Editors Edit
Your team isn’t slow. They’re stuck.
Give them a CMS where they can log in, see exactly what’s assigned to them, edit in context, and click “publish” with confidence. The kind of CMS where “collaboration” doesn’t mean sending a Word doc and hoping someone uploads it by next quarter.
That’s why organizations like the U.S. Army MWR trust Concrete CMS — not just for security, but because it makes publishing easier for *everyone*, not just the tech team.
TL;DR
If content is stuck, the problem probably isn’t your people it’s your CMS. Concrete CMS helps teams publish faster, without losing control or giving up security.