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
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Foundational free Patterns
Combine small activities into composite activities
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Delegate and optimize your operations
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
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