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APQC recently interviewed Scott Alexander, vice president of innovation at ROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation). ROi is a provider-owned integrated supply chain organization serving both its founder, Mercy Health System, an integrated delivery network of 46 acute and specialty hospitals across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and health care organizations throughout the U.S. who share a passion for supply chain excellence.

APQC’s research finds that best practice organizations actually don’t have significantly better search technology. Instead, they meet employees’ search needs with superior processes and approaches to content management.

APQC recently spoke with Rich Beck, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for PepsiCo, about the organization’s global supply chain innovation efforts.

PepsiCo is a global food and beverage organization with net revenues of more than $66 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of foods and beverages distributed globally.

Maria Sol Silva, Management Director at Oi S A, explains how Oi S A used small centralized teams to help project execution and what are the key to developing a culture in which employees believe in and use Six Sigma and BPM.

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Thanks to technologic innovation, the IT industry is enjoying a boom in today’s business world. IT organizations are not only in the Fortune 500, several are considered to be among the 100 Best Companies to Work For. According to Great Place to Work® IT is one of six industries that consistently dominate the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year.  

It’s Rare for Employees at IT Great Workplaces to Have a Case of the Mondays

Here is part two of the May 13 interview between Elissa Tucker and Mary Driscoll, APQC’s financial management senior research fellow, on her perspectives on the state of entry-level management accounting and finance talent.

In an earlier blog post, Genpact’s Susmita Kanjilal, assistant vice president, master data management practice, and Sandeep Singh, vice president, sourcing and procurement practice, described the benefits of a master data management program and potential obstacles to implementation.

APQC recently spoke with Genpact’s Susmita Kanjilal, assistant vice president, master data management practice, and Sandeep Singh, vice president, sourcing and procurement practice, about how organizations can implement an effective master data management program.

I was recently able to speak with David Doney, vice-president of internal audit at SIRVA, Inc. about how analyzing data and presenting it visually are important competencies as the economy digitizes.

David will be speaking on our free webinar on May 28 at 11:00 a.m. CDT: Best Practices in Data Visualization

APQC: What do organizations need to make better, data-driven decisions?

Today, I interviewed my colleague Mary Driscoll, APQC’s financial management senior research fellow, to get her perspectives on the state of entry-level management accounting and finance talent. APQC and IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) recently completed a survey on this topic. Mary and I partnered on this research and I’ve been eager to get her take on the results.