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
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.