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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Consider automating activities
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel