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Preference-based task assignment

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).

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Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Green Variant

Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process

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Implement automation in a sustainable way

Human Process Performance

Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines

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Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

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