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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Total Cost to Acquire Talent
Two trends are putting significant pressure on the cost to acquire talent: 1) scarcity of talent with the latest, most-in-demand skills and 2) competition to provide a…
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Talent Acquisition Tune-Up Diagnostic
In a competitive talent market, successfully meeting business objectives requires talent acquisition practices that differentiate your organization from other employers. Yet,…
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Effective customer service helps ensure that your customers are repeat buyers, your brand maintains a good reputation, and the money you invest in customer service is well…
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Process management activities like documentation, standardization, and digitization all help organizations to optimize their processes and enable continuous improvement. But…
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A skills taxonomy is a standard framework that provides a common language for skills and maps their connection to other skills as well as jobs. With a common language to…
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Design Thinking for Knowledge Management
Design thinking can assist knowledge management professionals in comprehending the requirements of their internal customers (i.e., end-users) and devising innovative…
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Particularly among small and medium-sized organizations, late customer payments are increasingly impeding cashflow management, negatively affecting strategic decision making,…
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When leaders think about what they need most to improve their supply chain processes, soft skills like change management and collaboration may not come to mind immediately…
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APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® is a reliable and robust framework used by hundreds of leading companies worldwide. This article includes questions and answers…
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HR Strategy and Planning Productivity
In evaluating HR process group and process performance, HR staff productivity is an essential consideration. Generally speaking, high levels of HR staff productivity can…
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HR Strategy Cost per Employee
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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HR Strategy Cost Per $1,000 Revenue
One of the first metrics that executives tend to look at when evaluating the performance of corporate functions or processes, such as HR processes, is cost. The measure Total…
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Efficiency of HR Strategy and Planning
Organizations that are efficient in HR strategy and planning deliver the human capital contributions that the business needs in ways that make the best use of HR time and…
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Keys to Implementing HR Strategy
An HR strategy is the combination of HR and people initiatives that are necessary to deliver on an organization’s business strategy. It directly informs how an organization…
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HR Strategy and Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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