About
Not a consultant who studied support. Someone who lived it.
Eight years inside a support operation — as the analyst, the team lead, the trainer, and the strategist. Driftless is what that experience looks like as a service.
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Maxime Lacasse
Founder, Driftless
ITIL
KCS
ServiceNow
Montréal, QC
2026
Founder
Driftless
2026
Process & Adoption Specialist
Global Operations
2025
Training Program Manager
Redesigned case lifecycle, KCS implementation
2022
Training Program Manager
Onboarding for 100+ analysts
2020
Team Lead
Built support function, escalation management
2018
Technical Support Analyst
Frontline, production issues, root cause analysis
The Story
Why Driftless exists.
Support operations don't fail because people stop caring. They fail slowly, quietly, in ways that are easy to ignore until they aren't. A process gets documented and then bypassed. A standard gets set and then forgotten. A workaround becomes the way things are done. Nobody makes a decision to let it happen — it just does. And by the time the numbers make it impossible to ignore, the gap between how the operation was designed to run and how it actually runs has become enormous.
Leadership sees the symptoms. Escalations up. CSAT down. Analysts overwhelmed. Good people leaving. But without someone who can get inside the operation and tell them exactly what's driving it — and exactly what to do about it — the response is almost always the same. Hire more people. Add more process. Hope it settles.
It doesn't settle. It drifts further.
Maxime Lacasse spent nearly a decade inside a support operation — starting as a frontline analyst and working his way up through team lead, trainer, and ultimately the person responsible for redesigning how the entire operation ran. For years he sat close enough to the problems to see exactly what was causing them, and far enough from the decisions to watch them go unfixed. Inefficient processes that everyone complained about and nobody changed. Analysts handling identical situations in completely different ways — not because they weren't capable, but because no one had ever built them a consistent way to work. Customers on the receiving end of an operation that was improvising more than it was executing.
He knew what needed to change. He just had to wait until someone gave him the room to change it.
When that moment came, he built from scratch — new processes designed with the analyst and the customer in mind, a methodology that gave the team a consistent way of working, a training program that made it stick. The team that had been a collection of individual wheels, each spinning in its own direction just trying to keep the lights on, finally started turning together.
That's the image Driftless was built around. And it's what every engagement is designed to create.
What I Believe
A few things that don't get said enough about support operations.
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When support fails, everything else your company does well stops mattering.
Every other touchpoint with your company happens when things are going well. Support is different. When a customer contacts support, something has gone wrong — and they need it fixed now. They're not in the mood for a runaround. That interaction, handled well or badly, shapes how they feel about your company more than any other. The support team isn't a back-office function. It's the frontline.
02
Every support problem is a people, process, or tool problem. Usually all three.
And it always starts with people. Fix the tool without fixing the process and nothing changes. Fix the process without addressing the behaviour and it won't stick. The only way to fix it properly is to diagnose all three — and have the honesty to address what you find.
03
The customer should never be able to tell who owns their ticket.
Bob and Jim should handle a case the same way. Same communication, same structure, same standard of care. When they don't, the customer notices — and loses confidence. Consistency isn't a nice-to-have. It's the foundation of a professional support operation.
04
Drift is human. Which is exactly why you have to design against it.
People don't cut corners because they're lazy. They cut corners because they get busy, because nobody pushes back, because the harder steps don't seem to matter until they do. Bad habits form quietly. The only way to stop drift is to build a system that makes following the process easier than bypassing it — and to have someone holding the line.
Let's Talk
Your operation won't fix itself.
Book a discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just a diagnostic conversation about where your support operation is today and whether Driftless is the right fit.
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