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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

Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Shift Workload

Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

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Deploy extra resources

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

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