Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.
Frank, L., Poll, R., Röglinger, M., & Lea, R. (2020). Design heuristics for customer-centric business processes. Business Process Management Journal, 26(6)
Companies should analyze at which times customers want to get in touch and adjust their business processes accordingly. From a customer perspective, the implementation of this heuristic will be perceived as the possibility to interact with the company whenever customers want.
The grocery store REWE extended its opening hours until late in the evening, as its customers prefer to do their shopping after work. In addition, the call center of National Bank, which is responsible for blocking credit cards, is available 24/7, as in the case of a lost or stolen credit card customers expect immediate assistance. In case no employee is available, a phone service or chatbot can be used.
Selected source. This heuristic has been derived from Strohle et al. (2018).
Individuated interaction capability, empowered interaction capability, concerted interaction capability.
Foundational free Patterns
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success