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.
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Foundational free Patterns
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
First-contact problem resolution
Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources