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
Buffer external information and subscribe to updates
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
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
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Preference-based task assignment
Let people do what they love to do
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources