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.
flowchart LR
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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.
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities
Collect similar work items and work in batches
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Let customers interact with the company wherever they want to
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel