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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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Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Buffer information

Buffer external information and subscribe to updates

Work in customer teams

Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Generalize your process

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

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Deploy extra resources

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

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