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
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Delegate and optimize your operations
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
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
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
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