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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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Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

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Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

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Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

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Deploy extra resources

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

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