Make Your Project Management Office More Effective

By Abigail Heller on Mar 22, 2013
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APQC has launched its latest business excellence Best Practices Report Effective Project Management Offices.

In this latest research, there are 14 best practices that emerged with regard to project management offices (PMOs). They range from:

Try APQC’s Human Capital Management Content

By Sue Lam on Mar 20, 2013
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Compiled for those considering APQC membership, this collection offers a sampling of the human capital management (HCM) content that is available in APQC’s Knowledge Base. This content represents a small percentage of our Knowledge Base, but it is a good representation of the kind of information located on our site.

Performance Measures for Supply Chain Planning Optimization

By Andrea Stroud on Mar 18, 2013
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Supply chain planning can often be extremely difficult to manage across enterprise and functional areas within an organization. Functional area expectations, priorities, and preferences can often differ when looking at supply chain planning activities; however, cost effectiveness, process efficiency, and cycle time are common considerations.

Mobile Computing to Bolster Performance Management

By Mary Driscoll on Mar 15, 2013
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APQC just launched a survey to uncover how recent advances in mobile computing can enhance business decision-making and performance management. We were flooded with responses during the first 24 hours—a sign the corporate world is going mad over mobile. Early results suggest that senior executives really do believe that mobile computing can better align people in operations with the strategy of the enterprise.

Social Media’s Role in Knowledge Management

By Lauren Trees on Mar 11, 2013
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Is your organization using social media to enhance internal knowledge sharing and collaboration? Here at APQC, we’re engaged in new research to understand how firms get value from blogs, wikis, microblogging, social tagging, and other similar tools. If you have a social media success story (or some useful lessons learned), please email me so I can feature you in our upcoming report.

Process Management Failures Start With Poor Governance

By Abigail Heller on Mar 08, 2013
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In December of 2012, Tom Molyneux wrote about his experiences with process management and governance in a Successful Workplace blog titled BPM’s struggle over governance. In his article, he suggests that a lack of governance is a common reason that organizations experience process management failures.

Developing Strategic HR Partnerships

By Sue Lam on Mar 06, 2013
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Is your HR a strategic business partner to leadership? APQC is conducting a research study on how HR functions become strategic advisors to their internal clients. This research will explore proven success factors for developing and sustaining a strategic advisory approach to HR.

What's Your Take on Telecommuting Policies?

By Sarah Hewson on Mar 05, 2013
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Like many, I was surprised to hear of CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to ban telecommuting at Yahoo. The memo from HR lead Jackie Reses states, “speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home…we need to be one Yahoo! And that starts with physically being together.” I can see her point – I appreciate working from the APQC office and believe it increases my collaboration and innovation.

Cisco, Corning, BT Among Companies to Be Studied

By Becky Partida on Mar 04, 2013
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APQC’s Best Practices Study, Open Innovation: Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration, is rolling along, and we’re excited about this research. In late January our participating organizations selected the best-practice partners that we will study, and site visits will start this month.

Financial Process Improvement Training Not Adequate

By Mary Driscoll on Feb 28, 2013
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Last week, I hosted an APQC webinar on the financial close process that focused on how to streamline and automate financial reporting. More than 480 people signed up. This week, I was a guest presenter on a webinar produced by Proformative, an online professional community for finance and accounting professionals. More than 400 people signed up. No doubt about it!