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
Consider automating activities
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Let products appear greener
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.