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Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Task delegation is when a person who was originally assigned a task passes it on to another person based on their position in the organisational hierarchy.

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).

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Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Green Variant

Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process

Generalize your process

Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Performance-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success

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Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

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