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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

Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Green Variant

Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Deploy extra resources

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

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