Let people do what they love to do
Assign a task to a person based on the person’s preference. Preference is defined as a set of activities that the person has an inclination towards and hence may have been executed more often along with higher execution efficiency by a person
Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).
Foundational free Patterns
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Move activities to more appropriate places
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency