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Self-checkout at IKEA

Self-checkout at IKEA

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 Fehrer
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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.

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Foundational basic Patterns

Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Buffer information

Buffer external information and subscribe to updates

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Isolate exceptions

Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

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

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Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

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