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
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Delegate and optimize your operations
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources