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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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Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Green Compensation

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

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

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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