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
start(start)-->3-->1-->2-->fin(end)Foundational free Patterns
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Let products appear greener
Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation
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