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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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Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Work in customer teams

Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Fail Early

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

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

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Deploy extra resources

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

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