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
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency