Best Practice Studies

Best Practice Studies

Network with Peers and Discover Best Practices Through Collaborative Learning Opportunities

If you are interested in an interactive approach to learning best practices, including the ability to interact with best practice organizations and peers around the globe, APQC offers collaborative research studies.  We offer a combination of in-person and virtual learning opportunities to provide you the flexibility you need as you learn:

Business Excellence

• Building Strong Process Management Capabilities

• Using Metrics that Drive Bottom-Line Value

Financial management

• Building a Best-in-Class Finance Function

Knowledge Management

• Putting Knowledge in the Flow of Work for Real Results
   

Participating gives you the ability to shape the research focus, attend site visits with leading organizations, share insights, and take away actionable reports and findings. You will gain insights you can use right away to improve the performance of your function or process area.

We also invite you to download our upcoming research agenda. It will provide you with an “at-a-glance” view of APQC's upcoming research projects.

View APQC’s entire Collaborative Research Agenda

Learn more about how to serve as a research champion in one of our best practice studies. For more information on how your organization may participate in the research, please contact a Relationship Manager.

How Can Participation Help Your Organization?

Learn what works and why.

APQC's proven collaborative methodology provide you with immediate access to new benchmarking data and best practices.

Get real answers from best-in-class organizations.

Find out which organizations are getting the results you want, talk to them about your own challenges, and understand how you can follow their lead. Even visit them on-site in many cases for hands on learning of best practices.

Build a network of peers.

Meet people who are focused on the same things you are, collaborate with them to develop creative solutions, and forge relationships that will help you down the road.

Save money.

Because these best practices research projects are group-based, peer-to-peer collaborations, you get the highest standard of benchmarking results at the lowest possible cost.

The participation causes us to reflect on what we do. Not only does it force us to think about what we do, and push ourselves, but it also gives us an opportunity to learn from others.

Bryant Clevenger and Ruth McLenaghan,
IBM Global Business Services