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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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Automate activities

Consider automating activities

Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Deploy extra resources

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

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