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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 a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Isolate exceptions

Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Fail Early

Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.

Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

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Deploy extra resources

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

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