In the July episode of the PCF Mailbag I discuss mapping and alignment between the PCF and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for IT processes, why the PCF doesn't use flow charts, and an easier and simpler way to compare older versions of the PCF to the most recent one.…

Whew. It has been an exhausting few months here at APQC, and we aren't planning to slow down either. Among other things, we've had not one, two, or three, but FOUR different teams of people working on new PCF offerings throughout the summer with the intention of releasing them at this year's…

I had a very good question from a friend of mine using the Electric Utilities PCF in her organization and I wanted to share it with you.   She realized that the latest version of the Electric Utilities PCF differed from the latest version of the Cross Industry PCF and she wanted to know if…

IBM CEO and APQC Board Member Ginni Rometty recently declared the death of traditional marketing as we know it. New marketers MUST focus directly to the customer, not to the segment. Retailers are definitely feeling this pressure as consumers are pressuring them to lower prices, provide better…

Organizations around the world leverage APQC’s process classification framework (PCF) to efficiently define processes, benchmark performance, and catalog and organize knowledge and content. Organizations depend on APQC to consistently define and manage the PCF in order to ensure the long-term value…

One of the big hurdles in my work is explaining the value of process management to people who are actually executing processes—ones that I’m trying to put under control. It’s not easy. Many times the value appears dubious—the return on investment (ROI) can’t be achieved in the short term. People…

  Anyone who has spent any time in entry-level business classes knows the adage, “if you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” It’s a pretty wise adage, and from a very systematic perspective, it’s right. Without knowledge of process performance, attempting to change is akin to rearranging…

APQC is probably most well-known around the world for its research in knowledge management. We’re not as acknowledged for our process classification framework (PCF), but in my humble opinion, the PCF is just as important as any work we do in knowledge management. The PCF represents one of a wide…

Governance. The mere utterance of the word evokes thoughts of jack-booted control freaks descending down upon hapless process teams. But it doesn’t have to be that way; modern governance models provide structure, guidance, and support to process owners and workers. By leveraging automation and…

We’ve all worked in an organization that feels chaotic. Here’s a common scenario: You’re happily performing a process, doing some work you’ve done dozens of times before, only to find out that the one sub-process you depend on has changed, and not for the better. Another common horror story…