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
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Foundational free Patterns
Buffer external information and subscribe to updates
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency