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Resequence activities

Move activities to more appropriate places

Reijers, H., & Liman Mansar, S. (2005). Best practices in business process redesign: an overview and qualitative evaluation of successful redesign heuristics. Omega, 33(4)

category: Business Process Behavior
class: Routing Rules
frameworkAspect: Behavioral view
redesignOperation: Sequentialize; Add Task; Remove Task
perspective: control-flow

Description

The current sequencing of tasks in existing workflows may not fully reflect the logical constraints that need to be observed between tasks. As a result, it can occasionally be advantageous to delay a task, particularly if it is not necessary for tasks that immediately follow. By doing this, there's a chance that the task may turn out to be unnecessary, leading to cost savings. Moreover, positioning a task closer to another task of a similar nature can potentially reduce setup times. Examples of these resequencing strategies include the knock-out heuristic, control relocation, and the parallelism heuristic.


  flowchart LR
	start(start)-->3-->1-->2-->fin(end)

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Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

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

Isolate exceptions

Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow

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Specialist-generalist

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Offer location flexibility

Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

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Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Fail Early

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

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

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