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 tobiasfehrerEliminate unnecessary activities
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Experience-based task assignment
Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions