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
Combine small activities into composite activities
Buffer external information and subscribe to updates
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources