Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Assign tasks based on the cost of a resource, defined as the person’s per-hour cost when executing a task
Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).
Foundational free Patterns
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Experience-based task assignment
Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success