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Foundational basic Patterns

Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite 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

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

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Patterns paired

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

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