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
Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
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