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
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.