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Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Minimize the number of departments, groups and persons involved in a business process

Reijers, H., & Liman Mansar, S. (2005). Best practices in business process redesign: an overview and qualitative evaluation of successful redesign heuristics. Omega, 33(4)

category: Organization
class: Resource Rules
frameworkAspect: Org-.structure
perspective: organizational/resource

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Performance considerations

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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Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

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