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Task delegation

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.

Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).

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Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

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Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

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Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.

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Department-based assignment

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If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

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