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
Buffer external information and subscribe to updates
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency