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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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Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Work in customer teams

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

Isolate exceptions

Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Green Compensation

Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.

Human Process Performance

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

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

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Deploy extra resources

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

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