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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

Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Isolate exceptions

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

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

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