Strategic Guidance Relevant to COVID-19

This blog discusses the results of a quick poll APQC conducted in March 2020 to find out how supply chain leaders are thinking about the disruptions they face today and what they anticipate over the next year.

APQC conducted a survey in early 2020 to find out how KM is responding to market, business, and technology disruptions. This report provides a cross-industry perspective into changes affecting KM and how KM programs are responding.

This blog identifies three ways KM teams can help their organizations meet the challenge of Covid-19.

In this webinar, APQC's Cindy Hubert and Lauren Trees discuss strategies and tactics to prepare for the current pace of change and navigate business disruptions when they occur.

This article summarizes best practices and examples of how scenario planning can help an organization prepare to mitigate the worst impacts of disruption and quickly take advantage of new opportunities.

Financial contingency planning is an important tool in the finance function toolkit to help organizations prepare in the event of market disruptions. This article gleans insights from secondary research to help organizations develop a financial contingency plan for their own businesses in order to better prepare for financial risk and remain resilient.

Drawing insights from secondary research (both current and past), this article outlines some lessons learned in these areas that finance can consider right now to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

In March 2020, APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information from 90 global supply chain professionals about the current state of disruptions within their supply chains. This infographic reflects the global pandemic, with 82 percent of respondents experiencing a disruption from public health concerns.

Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® database, this article discusses approaches that organizations can take to help strengthen cash management and liquidity by managing their DPO.

This article highlights organizations top priorities and challenges for supply chain in 2020.

This report provides a cross-industry perspective into impacts on and changes in organizations’ business models and the effects of COVID on technology and methodology adoption.

KM leaders are striving to understand the impact of COVID-19 and how to rethink their priorities and projects in its wake. In this session, APQC Principal Research Lead Lauren Trees shares early results of this research along with examples of KM making a difference during a difficult time.

In this webinar, experienced practitioners facilitate a discussion of KM’s role in the current crisis and how smart programs are managing knowledge risks, optimizing virtual work, and ensuring critical knowledge continues to flow.

People everywhere are adapting to a “new normal” of all-virtual work. KM has spent decades connecting employees across locations and silos, and now it’s becoming the glue that holds organizations together. In this session, experienced practitioners led the audience in a discussion about the role of virtual communities and collaboration in the current crisis, zeroing in on key challenges and opportunities.

Every organization is happy to have sales, but closing sales isn’t enough to keep a business afloat. Collections are key — and the faster the money comes in, the more breathing room an organization has. For this article, we look at days sales outstanding as reported to APQC’s Accounts Receivable Open Standards Benchmarking survey by 5,204 survey participants in various industries.