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)
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.
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Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Automate for environmental impact
Implement automation in a sustainable way
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel