Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Frank, L., Poll, R., Röglinger, M., & Lea, R. (2020). Design heuristics for customer-centric business processes. Business Process Management Journal, 26(6)
Companies should offer customers the possibility to perform tasks included in business processes that have previously been performed by employees. When implementing this heuristic, companies should consider whether customers can choose between self-service and the traditional process. Companies must also consider that not all tasks included in business processes can be performed by customers.
Empowered interaction capability, concerted interaction capability.
Foundational free Patterns
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
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
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity