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
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources