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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start(start)-->3-->1-->2-->fin(end)Foundational free Patterns
Combine small activities into composite activities
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
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