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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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Foundational free Patterns

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Green Variant

Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process

Use eco-friendly resources

Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives

Generalize your process

Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

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Deploy extra resources

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

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