Here at APQC, we publish a lot of content exclusively for our members, but we also make our research available to the broader public. So, of the hundreds of content pieces publicly available in our Knowledge Base, which are downloaded most often? Below is a top 10 list of some of our most popular…
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…
I don’t know about your organization, but at APQC, we’re already thinking about planning and budgeting for 2013. If you’re looking to design a new knowledge management budget for next year, I recommend checking out our article Budgeting for Knowledge Management: How to Plan for and Prioritize…
Learn how your HR function can work smarter by more formally managing HR knowledge. I’ve been writing a lot lately about the shortage of technical skills plaguing organizations in the aerospace, energy, engineering, and many other industries. But, there is another skills shortage that I want to…
People are always begging me for more SharePoint content, so I’m happy to announce that APQC has published a new SharePoint case study. It focuses on Chevron’s Procurement and Supply Chain Management function, which is building a SharePoint system to house reference information, working documents,…
APQC’ newest report, Putting Knowledge in the Flow of Work, looks at how top organizations move KM to center stage by building knowledge sharing into the processes and frameworks that guide their operations. The report includes 16 best practices and case studies of five best-practice organizations…
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…
Recently, a lot of people have been asking me about the best way to transfer best practices. APQC has tons of content on this topic, but I realized we didn’t have an updated overview article that lays out the basics, so I wrote one: How to Transfer Internal Best Practices. The article is based on…
Of all the great keynotes at APQC’s knowledge management conference last month, I learned the most from Carla O’Dell’s. (And yes, technically she’s my boss, but it’s still true!) I always feel like Carla has her finger on the pulse of KM, and her remarks at the conference were no exception. She…
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…