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
Combine small activities into composite activities
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Delegate and optimize your operations
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency