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
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
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