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.
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Foundational free Patterns
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources