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
Establish a case-based mindset
Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process
Move activities to more appropriate places
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel