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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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Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Deploy extra resources

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

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Fail Early

Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Performance-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success

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Deploy extra resources

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

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