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
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources