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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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Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Buffer information

Buffer external information and subscribe to updates

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Green Compensation

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

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

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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