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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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Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Generalize your process

Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Experience-based task assignment

Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

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Deploy extra resources

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

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