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).
Foundational free Patterns
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
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 choose among privacy settings
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
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