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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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Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Deploy extra resources

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

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