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
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Empower workers for more decision-making authority
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources