sharing of resources (limited capacity)
•
external communication (trigger time)
•
There are several ways to evaluate throughput/waiting time:
•
average
•
variance
•
service level
•
ability to meet due dates
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Redesign criterion 3: Costs
•
Type of costs
•
fixed or variable,
•
human, system (hardware/software), or external,
•
processing, management, or support.
•
Note the trade-off between human/system-related costs.
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Redesign criterion 4: Flexibility
•
The ability to react to changes
•
Flexibility of
•
resources (ability to execute many tasks/new tasks)
•
process (ability to handle various cases and changing workloads)
•
management (ability to change rules/allocation)
•
organization (ability to change the structure and responsiveness
to wishes of the market and business partners)
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Heuristic redesign framework
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
Organisation
-Structure
-Population
Information
Technology
Operation view
Business process
Behavioural view
•
Mixes elements of WCA,
CIMOSA, MOBILE
frameworks
•
Has been validated using
two case studies and
questionnaire among
over a 100 Dutch and UK
BPR experts
•
Classifies collected best
practices
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Heuristics positioned in the framework
Customer
Control
relocation
Contact
reduction
Integra-
tion
Process
Operation
Case types
Activity
elimina-
tion
Case-
based
work
Triage
Activity
composi-
tion
Process
Behavior
Resequen
-cing
Paralle-
lism
Knock-out
Exception
Organiza-
tion
Case
assign-
ment
Flexible
assign-
ment
Centraliza-
tion
Split res-
ponsibi-
lities
Customer
teams
Numerical
involve-
ment
Case
manager
Extra
resources
Specialist
generalist
Empower
Informa-
tion
Control
addition
Buffering
Techno-
logy
Automa-
tion
Integral
techno-
logy
External
Trusted
party
Outsour-
cing
Interfacing
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Heuristics defined (1)
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Heuristics defined (2)
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Most popular redesign heuristics*
1.
Task elimination
2.
Integral technology
3.
Task composition
4.
Parallelism
5.
Specialist-generalist
6.
Resequencing
7.
Integration
8.
Empower
9.
Numerical involvement
10.
Case assignment
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*Mansar, Selma Limam, and Hajo A. Reijers. "Best practices in business process
redesign: validation of a redesign framework."
Computers in industry
, Vol. 56, no.
5 (2005): 457-471.
