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
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources