Too many cooks spoil the broth
Minimize the number of departments, groups and persons involved in a business process
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Employing this approach should mitigate coordination issues. Time saved on coordination can be allocated to case processing. Decreasing department count could reduce shared responsibilities, akin to the split responsibilities approach. Yet, it might hinder expertise development (quality concern) and routine efficiency (cost concern).
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Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources