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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

Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Use eco-friendly resources

Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives

Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

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Deploy extra resources

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

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