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Is Your Service Desk Still Running On Yesterday’s Playbook?

  • Writer: Bilal Muta
    Bilal Muta
  • Nov 13
  • 2 min read

In today’s hyper-connected world, customers don’t just call when they have an issue, they chat, text, DM, open a ticket, trigger a bot, and then expect a seamless hand-off to a human who already knows them. According to Salesforce, 71% of customers prefer different channels depending on the moment and context.

And more recently, AI-agent adoption surged a staggering 119% in H1 2025. So here’s the question: Are your agents enabled or still encumbered?



🚀 What “agent-engagement transformed” looks like

  • A unified workspace where agents get the full customer story in one pane-of-glass (no toggling between systems)

  • Real-time intelligence: AI suggestions, next-best-actions, knowledge articles surfacing in the correct context 

  • Proactive case orchestration: routing the right agent, with the right skills, at the right time, across voice, chat, messaging, social channels.

  • Self-service plus human-assist: letting customers help themselves where appropriate, freeing agents to tackle the complex, high-value interactions.

  • Data-driven measurement & coaching: track agent engagement, sentiment, outcomes, then iterate.



 Why now matters

  • Customer patience is shrinking. They expect speed + context. If you don’t deliver, someone else will.

  • Agent attrition is high. A system that empowers agents makes them want to stay vs. have to stay.

  • Tech is no longer aspirational, it’s foundational. You’re either enabling your team with the tools to serve or you’re bottlenecking growth.

  • It’s a revenue lever: higher first-call resolution, faster turnaround, better customer satisfaction → more advocacy, more renewals.



 The transformation we help deliver

If you’re ready to move from reactive task-handling → proactive engagement, we partner to:

• Map your current service model: channels, hand-offs, data flows

• Design the unified agent engagement hub (built on Service Cloud + Agentforce-informed workflows)

• Enable AI and automation smartly (so agents are enabled, not replaced)

• Institute the metrics & culture of continuous learning for your service workforce



 Let’s connect if you are:

  • A service leader or operations executive responsible for CX or contact centre / service desk excellence

  • Facing signs of agent burnout, inconsistent experiences, channel fragmentation

  • Responsible for driving the next wave of digital customer care and you’re looking for a partner to architect it, not just “put tools in”

  • Curious: What if your entire agent-ecosystem became a competitive advantage?


Want to explore how this could work for you?


 
 
 

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