Sample reportIllustrative example

What a Service Desk Performance Audit looks like.

An illustrative example built from representative data — not a real company or customer result. It shows the four sections of the report and, more importantly, the interpretation that comes with each.

Example internal IT team

220 employees

Team size

4-person IT team

Monthly demand

~560 tickets / month

Executive summary

Responding quickly, resolving slowly — and the gap is widening.

Ticket volume has risen 45% over twelve months while the team has stayed at four people. First response is fast and mostly inside SLA, but resolution is slow and SLA breaches have climbed from 11% to 18%. The root cause isn't effort — it's a small number of high-volume request types being handled manually, poor categorisation hiding the real demand, and a backlog concentrated in three queues. None of it needs a new platform. The 90-day plan below targets the demand and the routing first, where the return is fastest.

1

Where your time is going

Illustrative

Twelve months of demand — analysed, not just charted.

Monthly ticket volume

Interpretation

Demand rose 45% year-on-year with no added headcount, and the growth isn't evenly spread: access and password requests drove two-thirds of the increase. That's not a "work harder" problem — it's a demand-shape problem, and demand-shape problems are fixable without hiring.

2

What's breaking

Illustrative

The numbers that need explaining upward.

18%

of tickets breached their SLA last quarter, up from 11%

22%

of resolved tickets were reopened at least once

71%

of tickets older than 14 days sit in just 3 categories

31%

of P2 incidents were touched by 3+ teams before resolution

Behind those headline numbers are the findings that only appear when you join data together — each one ending in hours or money, not just an observation:

F1Demand × coverage

“Password & MFA reset” was logged 312 times last quarter — your highest driver — with no knowledge article covering it. At a median 9 minutes each, that’s ~47 agent-hours a quarter, and no route to self-service.

F7Where the time goes

“Access requests” take a median 4.2 days to close, but only 3 hours of that is active work — the rest is spent awaiting the requester with no automated chase. A reminder would recover ~60 hours of elapsed time a month.

3

Why it's happening

Illustrative

Root cause, with the cost attached.

Section 3 works through all seven dimensions. Here's one, in the score → findings → cost format the whole section uses.

Ticket Categorisation

40/100

Findings

  • 84 active categories; 61% of tickets land in just 5 of them.
  • 19% of sampled tickets were categorised inconsistently with their content.
  • 6 recurring access/permission request types are logged as generic incidents, not requests.

What it's costing you

Reporting built on this data understates your real top demand drivers, so staffing and automation decisions are made against the wrong picture. The 6 mis-logged request types alone account for roughly 93 analyst-hours a month of manual handling — around half an FTE.

4

Your 90-day plan

Illustrative

Prioritised by effort vs impact.

High impact · lower effort

  • Backlog ageing review
  • Routing rules for top categories

High impact · higher effort

  • Access-request catalogue + approval workflow

Medium impact

  • Reporting rebuild on cleaned categories

Days 1–30

Stabilise

  • Publish a self-service article for password & MFA resetsF1
  • Add an automated requester-chase on access requestsF7
  • Ship routing rules for the top 5 categoriesF10

Days 31–60

Reduce demand

  • Move the 6 repeat request types into a catalogue itemF2
  • Raise a problem record for the recurring VPN clusterF3
  • Clean the category treeF15

Days 61–90

Automate and measure

  • Rebuild reporting on the cleaned dataF15
  • Cross-train a second owner for the single-agent queueF13
  • Establish a monthly service improvement review

The codes against each action (F1, F7, …) trace every recommendation back to a numbered finding earlier in the report. If an action has no finding behind it, it doesn't make the plan.

Illustrative example only. Figures are representative of typical 50–500-employee service desk operations, not a real customer. Your report contains your own numbers.

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