Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Assign tasks to people based on their interactions with other departments to involve multiple departments or limit involvement
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The review loan application task has been assigned to a resource from the finance and human resources departments, as they have shared responsibility.
For department-based assignments, prior information related to different departments, people in those departments, their skills, and the time involved in handovers may be required. Based on this information and the objective of the process, the appropriate resources would be allocated to the tasks of the process.
This pattern will result in a high-quality outcome in less time and cost.
Foundational free Patterns
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Delegate and optimize your operations
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.