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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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Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Deploy extra resources

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

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

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First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Experience-based task assignment

Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions

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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