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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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Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Work in customer teams

Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Experience-based task assignment

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

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Deploy extra resources

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

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