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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

Deploy extra resources

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

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Green Variant

Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

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Deploy extra resources

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

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