Tudor Griffiths Group: Boosting IT Resources

Industry

Builders Merchants, Concrete Supplier, Aggregates, Environmental Services

Location

HQ Shropshire

Employees

201-500

Back in 1874, 25 year old William Griffiths started making bricks and drainpipes in his backyard.

After more than 140 years in business and now with 40 sites, the Tudor Griffiths Group is still owned and managed by the Griffiths family near Oswestry.

The Challenge

While managing IT across several TG Group businesses, Group ICT Manager Chris Jackson was also dealing with a high turnover of IT Technicians, resulting in ongoing recruitment and training responsibilities. Chris had set up new IT projects that required ongoing work however, due to the difficulties retaining trained IT Technicians, he found that he was spending more time managing day-to-day IT issues.

This put Chris in the difficult position of having little time to focus on his core job activities and being the only IT point of contact for the group.

In addition, the business was dealing with multiple 3CX servers across their estate, multiple licences and ageing hardware, causing operational headaches.

The Solution

Our experts delivered a multi-layered IT Support system to ensure that Chris and the wider business would have support in place.

With access to our IT helpdesk, employees could contact us directly to resolve any IT issues.

“As time has gone on in my role at TG we have brought in more IT systems to run the various parts of the business which takes up more of my time to get the most out of them. Although we had IT guys to run the Help Desk, from there, there isn’t a career path available so they tend to move on. So it made sense to put the work out to an MSP.
I’d absolutely recommend Curveball to any IT Manager who’s in a similar position, or even to a company that already has an IT team in-house but needs that little bit of extra support. It just takes that little bit of pressure off.”
Chris Jackson
Group ICT Manager, Tudor Griffiths Group

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