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
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
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