Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Assign a task to a person based on their experience working with other resources, which is measured by factors such as the time taken for handovers, number of interactions, and diversity of experience with different people
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).
The review risk task in a loan application process requires two resources to work together. The task is hence allocated to resources A and B as they have evidenced working well together in the past. Impact: This pattern will result in a high-quality outcome in less time and cost.
For a teamwork-based assignment, a prior understanding of the interaction of a resource with other resources needs to be known. Based on that understanding, appropriate resources will be allocated
This pattern will result in a high-quality outcome in less time and cost.
Foundational free Patterns
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement