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How Early Measurement Helps Build KM Momentum
Urging a new KM team to establish baseline measures is a little like begging a toddler to finish her broccoli before digging into the chocolate cookies. When KMers first set…
What is The Goal of BPM Governance Models?
Think about how often, as a child, you asked your parents “why can’t this or that happen?” How often was the response, “because it is the rules.” Maybe that…
What 4 Factors Matter Most For Finished-Product First-Pass Quality?
After a year of severe disruption, manufacturing is on the rise again. For example, the Institute for Supply Management’s February 2021 Manufacturing ISM® Report on Business®…
Secret to Managing Remote Workers
Over the past year, APQC has understandably received many questions about how to manage remote workers. Early in the pandemic, questions centered on managing the logistics of…
Turn Supply Chain Chaos into Reusable Knowledge
In my last blog post (Blockchain and RPA Leading Supply Chain Trends in 2021), I mentioned that chaos has made improvement efforts difficult in supply chain; in fact, it’s…
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Measure and Improve Product Development Performance
How does your organization’s product development function compare with that of other organizations? In this post I want to talk about data for a few key performance indicators in product development. The data presented here is taken from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in product development…
Collaborate to Innovate
Do you want to expand your organization’s idea-generating capacity? APQC’s upcoming Best Practices Study, Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration, aims to look at how organizations use outside sources to bring additional value inside. The reality is that more talent exists outside your…
To Offshore or Reshore?
Has your organization looked closely at whether offshoring manufacturing is the best choice? During a recent Webinar, Harry Moser of the Reshoring Initiative discussed how organizations can calculate the total cost of ownership for offshoring manufacturing. The Webinar was…
An Update on Supply Chain and Product Development Content
Did you know that APQC has created or updated 87 pieces of supply chain management and product development content since the beginning of 2012? Find out what’s new in the presentation Now in the Knowledge Base: Supply Chain Management. APQC provides Now in the Knowledge Base updates twice a year…
Capturing and Transferring Knowledge in Product Development
If you haven’t had a chance to check out APQC’s newest product development best practices report, Improving the Flow of Knowledge in Product Development, we’ve made it easy to get an overview of the report’s findings. Earlier this month, APQC’s Marisa Brown hosted a Webinar that showcased some of…
Webinar on Manufacturing in North America
APQC members can download a recording and the slides from the June APQC/AME Benchmarking CoP Webinar. Join APQC and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) on June 19 at 10:00 a.m. (CDT) for a complimentary Webinar on challenges facing North American manufacturing and ideas on how to…
APQC Members Named Top Supply Chains
Analyst firm Gartner named nine APQC member organizations in its annual Supply Chain Top 25 released May 22. Gartner’s list identifies global leaders in the supply chain industry using financial data, analyst opinions, and peer opinions. The nine APQC members are: Procter…
Seeking Presentations for APQC 2012 Process Conference
We want to hear from you! Submit an abstract by May 31 to be considered as a presenter at APQC’s 2012 Process Conference. The conference is October 25-26, and the theme is Block & Tackle: Leveraging Process for Results. We are looking for presentations that tell the story of business process…
Tracking the Benefits of Knowledge Management in Product Development
In the product development space, the term “knowledge management” may be unfamiliar. But the concept certainly isn’t: knowledge management (KM) means giving workers easy access to the information or people they need to do their jobs faster and better. By providing product development workers with…
You Can Shape Our PD/Innovation Research
At APQC we’re finalizing our product development/innovation best practices research agenda for the year. But we want your input to make sure the study topic we choose is what you most want to know about. Take our short Web-based survey at http://www.apqc.org/surveys/hottopic/pdinno2012 to let us…