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Customers Judge You on Last Mile Delivery

Last Mile Deliveries are Critical for 2024

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Evolving customer behaviors and expectations mean that organizations are facing increasing pressure to change.

What Inspires Process Management Professionals?

5 Reasons People Choose a Career in Process Management

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I recently wrapped up research on our People of Process Management project. We conducted this survey back in 2019, and it was fun to gather new insights, as well as look at the data from 2019. 

Right Number of Middle Managers

How Many Middle Management Positions Do You Need?

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When organizations are looking to reduce headcount, they often begin at the management level and with middle management in particular.

Advanced Supply Chain Analytics

Advanced Supply Chain Analytics Investment Is Worthwhile

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In late 2022, APQC carried out a quick poll of 278 manufacturing organizations about the use of

Content Management and AI

Why is it important to think about content management before AI?

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As knowledge management professionals, we are bombarded almost daily with information about artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI (GenAI) capabilities such as ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and DALL-E2. But did you know AI has been around for a long time now?

What is Benchmarking

What is Benchmarking?

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What is Benchmarking?

Process Management Needs Change of Direction

Process and Knowledge Collaboration: Bridging the Gaps

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At our conference earlier this year, we brought KM and PPM professionals together; I heard more than once of the strong relationship between the two.

Knowledge Flow Leadership Buy-In

Managing Knowledge Starts with Knowledge Flow

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When an organization’s most critical knowledge is moving through the organization efficiently and reaching the right people at the right time, you have knowledge flow!

Continuous Improvement is An Ongoing Journey

What is Continuous Process Improvement?

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When it comes to processes, continuous improvement is the direct opposite of “one and done.” It is instead an ongoing journey of identifying, analyzing, and making incremental improvements to processes.

Procure-to-Pay Struggles

Why Procure-to-Pay Governance is a Struggle

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In response to increasing global interest in end-to-end processes, APQC has gathered insight into how organizations are governing and managing their procure-to-pay (P2P) processes.