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.
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Foundational free Patterns
Consider automating activities
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources