Professional Services Firms

Leading professional services firms rely on APQC. With the world’s largest and most current database of benchmarks and best practices, we have the data you can’t get anywhere else. Take advantage of an APQC Membership today.

APQC Membership: Build a business case and help your clients improve

A professional services firm membership in APQC provides you—and every employee in your firm—with access to leading-edge content and expertise to help your clients discover, understand, and implement effective methods for improvement. Develop client engagement materials and support your recommendations with validated data from a neutral, third-party resource.

Professional services firms join APQC to:

collect research and data for client engagements and proposals,
prepare for client meetings,
access benchmarking tools to identify gaps and set baselines,
incorporate APQC’s fact-based research into existing thought leadership,
showcase your firm’s content, and
conduct voice of customer and networking.

Fast access to the world’s largest database of benchmarks and best practices

Looking for best practice content? Visit APQC's Knowledge Base.

Membership in APQC provides you—and every employee in your firm—with access to our continuously updated Knowledge Base, a database of case studies, frameworks, white papers, and more. Support your solutions or develop proposal materials to win business with validated data and timely content from a neutral resource. Save the time and expense of in-house research and increase your consultants’ time focused on delivering insights and advice by tapping APQC’s vast and growing database of content.

Looking to measure your KM program? Access APQC's KM Capability Assessment tool.

APQC’s Knowledge Management Capability Assessment Tool offers a rigorous way to measure the capability and maturity of your organization’s efforts. Get a clear picture of where you stand using APQC’s recognized Levels of Knowledge Management Maturity^SM and move from immature, inconsistent KM activities to disciplined ones that support your organization’s business imperatives.

Looking for Benchmarks? see APQC's Assessment tools.

Through your professional services firm membership, your organization has several options to access validated, relevant metrics and best practices relating to FTEs, costs, cycle times, and more:

Rapid Performance Assessments

Quickly provide your clients with validated data to identify performance gaps. Complete short, online assessments on high-level key performance indicators (KPIs), and within two business days you'll receive a summary report of your clients' metrics with industry, revenue, and geographic comparisons.

Open Standards Benchmarking

Give clients a more detailed assessment of where they stand compared with peers and develop a road map for improvement. Submit clients' data via an online tool, and within two to three weeks you'll receive a robust benchmarking report to identify, quantify, and close the performance gaps for one or multiple sites.

License Benchmarks on Demand*

License custom benchmark data segmented by industry, revenue, geography, business model, and more. APQC will provide your firm with the blinded, calculated metrics from the available process areas or categories in summary (aggregated) or individual (disaggregated) form.
*Fee based service with significant member discount

Looking to build world-class brand awareness?

Position your firm as a thought leader by contributing your authored research to our Knowledge Base or participating in discussion forums. Leverage the trust of a third-party venue for your firm’s content and gain exposure as a thought leader among our global network of members.

Other benefits of your professional service firm membership:

Custom research
We offer custom benchmarking services for specific or unique topic areas not covered within our other services.
Best practice research (sponsor or champion)
Become a best practice research champion and leverage the APQC brand and expertise and gain access to the intellectual property from the study.
Content licensing
Educate your clients and prospects with trusted third-party information. Reinforce your firm's marketing messages by co-branding with APQC.