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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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Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Resequence activities

Move activities to more appropriate places

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 Feature

Let products appear greener

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

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Deploy extra resources

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

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