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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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Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

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

Isolate exceptions

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

Apply triage

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

Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

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Deploy extra resources

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

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