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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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Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Buffer information

Buffer external information and subscribe to updates

Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

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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