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
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Foundational free Patterns
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
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