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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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Foundational free Patterns

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Human Process Performance

Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Deploy extra resources

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

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