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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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Work in customer teams

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

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Apply triage

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

Green Compensation

Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.

Human Process Performance

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

Tailored privacy settings

Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings

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Deploy extra resources

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

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