01 The challenge
Skilled engineers were spending their days as a switchboard.
First-line engineers and support staff were overwhelmed by high-volume, routine enquiries: password resets, ticket status lookups, and basic triage. Skilled engineers were spending up to 40% of their working day manually categorising tickets and answering repetitive questions.
Response times suffered during peak business hours and after-hours coverage was limited, leading to breached SLAs and frustrated internal users.