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
Combine small activities into composite activities
Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources