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
Establish standardized interfaces
Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel