Do you hire or recruit management accounting and finance talent? If so, I would like to invite you to participate in APQC and IMA®’s (Institute for Management Accountants) survey on the state of entry-level management accounting and finance talent. The survey asks for your opinion regarding your…

Big Data is all the rage, with more and more companies drawing on burgeoning data streams to better understand their customers and make better business decisions. But it can be tricky when you’re trying to turn data into insights and actions that provide a competitive advantage. And both data…

The most recent entrant in the cottage industry of cognitive psychology books, Daniel Leviten’s new book The Organized Mind, attempts to help us sort through the vast amount of information demanding our attention daily. Leviten claims we are victims of our evolutionary and inadequate attentional…

Strategy implementation is by far the hardest part of strategic planning and requires many of the skills project management offices (PMOs) exhibit—core competencies (e.g., time management and problem solving) and softer skills (e.g., leadership and communications). To better understand what…

We turned to APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking to find out how median IT cost compares across industries. Our findings are in the infographic below, which reveals some pretty significant differences in IT cost among different industries. Certainly different IT needs—as well as differences in…

What do Nike, SG Helmets, and Microsoft have in common? They are driving innovation in the products used by players and coaches in the National Football League (NFL). Although the game itself hasn’t changed dramatically over the years, today’s players in the NFL can play in greater comfort and…

Organizations have shifted focus from minimizing talent costs towards maximizing talent’s potential. They are transforming HR and human capital management (HCM) to drive business growth. Making this transition requires a mature HCM strategy, mature HCM processes, and mature HR technology systems…

Any organization developing a new product or service wants to ensure that it gets a successful and profitable project in return for its investment. But what kind of success rate and profit amount should organizations aim for? APQC recently partnered with Stage-Gate International to study how…

Senior technical experts can be in short supply, especially if your organization has lots of projects underway. New employees and novices may not know where to turn or may be reluctant to bother or look stupid in front of an expert. One way to cope with a shortage of experts is to appeal to the…

APQC recently held a panel discussion on how organizations can take advantage of a holistic strategy encompassing an intersection of knowledge, process, and quality management. APQC’s Travis Colton, Jim Lee, and Jeff Varney collectively responded to this follow-up discussion from the panel: Q.…