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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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Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Work in customer teams

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

Use eco-friendly resources

Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

Human Process Performance

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

Performance-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success

Experience-based task assignment

Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

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Deploy extra resources

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

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