Service operations measured by person and work type

Pyze measures how order handling, provisioning, assurance and billing work is performed, then measures the work absorbed once AI agents are deployed.

1,000s
of agents measured in a single deployment
4
systems typically touched per case
1 week
to instrument
Per person
measurement instead of team averages

Engagement archetypes from Pyze deployments in this sector rather than a single named account.

Telecommunications operations run at a scale where a small per-case difference compounds into a large annual figure, and the systems involved were rarely designed to work together. Handling time is largely determined by the work between systems, which no platform measures.

Common Findings in Telecommunications

Four patterns that recur across engagements, each shown with the measurement and the resulting change.

Average handling time is managed closely and has not changed in two years.

Standardize
What the measurement shows

The average masks a wide spread by work type and by person, and does not identify which staff would benefit most from coaching.

What changes

Technique is compared against the top quartile on comparable work, and coaching targets specific behaviours.

Provisioning orders fall out and are worked manually, and the volume is not tracked.

Agentify
What the measurement shows

Fallout is concentrated in a small number of causes, most of which have a documented resolution.

What changes

Recurring causes are resolved automatically, and remaining orders reach a person already diagnosed.

Agents switch between four systems to answer one customer question.

Simplify
What the measurement shows

The time spent moving between systems is the largest component of handling time, larger than the work inside any single system.

What changes

System switching is measured and removed at the most costly points, which is a smaller change than replacing any of the systems.

Billing disputes are resolved inconsistently across teams.

Standardize
What the measurement shows

Each team has developed its own process, and none follows the documented one.

What changes

One procedure derived from the practice of the best teams, with conformance scored continuously.

Opportunity Register

A sample register, sorted by the lever that resolves each opportunity. In an engagement, each line carries measured hours, a named owner and the evidence it was derived from.

Order fallout diagnosis
Agentify
Recurring causes resolved, with remaining exceptions routed with the cause attached.
Provisioning status response
Agentify
Customer status questions answered from data the agent can already see.
Cross-system switching reduction
Simplify
The most expensive hand-offs consolidated.
Billing dispute handling
Standardize
One documented path derived from the best-performing teams.
Assurance ticket triage
Agentify
Classified against stated criteria, ambiguity escalated.
Field dispatch coordination
Automate
Scheduling and confirmation removed from the queue.
Report generation
Automate
Operational reporting scheduled instead of rebuilt.
Queue rebalancing
Rebalance
Load levelled against measured effort instead of ticket count.
Automate and Agentify are distinct findings. Scheduling a report is deterministic work with a stated rule. Diagnosing an exception is a decision. Separating the two prevents a register from over-scoping the first and missing the second.

Systems typically instrumented

SalesforceAmdocs and BSS platformsServiceNowProvisioning and OSSContact centre platformsExcel and Outlook

Capture covers browser-delivered and thick-client applications, including virtualized estates, with no change to how anyone works.

Roles Involved

Service operationsProvisioning and assuranceBilling operationsContact centreOperational excellence

Instrumentation is configured per application rather than per person, so the population in scope is set during scoping and is not a deployment constraint.

How an Engagement Runs

Baseline, blueprint, transform, prove

The same four stages apply in every sector. The fourth stage repeats the baseline measurement, which makes the engagement an ongoing operating capability rather than a one-time report.

01

Baseline

What the work costs today, measured across every person and application.

02

Blueprint

Procedures, application rules and execution evidence, read as one target state.

03

Transform

Where each of the five levers applies, priced and owned.

04

Prove

The after state measured against the baseline, using the same method.

Frequently Asked Questions

We have thousands of agents. Does the deployment scale?
Yes. Instrumentation is per application and the analysis is designed for populations in the thousands. Measurement is per person throughout, because team averages conceal individual variation.

Start with a measured baseline

Six weeks from instrumentation to a priced opportunity register, and the baseline stays in place so later quarters are measured rather than re-estimated.