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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

Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

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

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Deploy extra resources

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

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