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.
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Foundational free Patterns
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Delegate and optimize your operations
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources