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.
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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 tobiasfehrerCombine small activities into composite activities
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Delegate and optimize your operations
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics