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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

Fail Early

Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

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Deploy extra resources

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

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