IKEA offers its customers the possibility to scan and pay products themselves at self-service checkouts. Using the self-service checkouts gives many customers pleasure and reduces their waiting time. As another example, Allianz offers customers the possibility to change and check their personal data in the online customer portal.
About the authors
Tobias is doctoral student and has created process-pattern.app as a side project. His research is on data-driven process improvement.
Find Tobias on @dtdi tobiasfehrerLet workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology
Delegate and optimize your operations
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Experience-based task assignment
Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions