Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Assign tasks based on the unique skills of the person(s) involved. Expertise is defined as the specialised skills possessed by a resource
Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).
Foundational free Patterns
Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Experience-based task assignment
Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Delegate tasks according to resource cost