Resource Library
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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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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How to Create End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end understanding of work processes is critical for almost any aspect of managing business operations. In mapping out processes, organizations need to both…
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Interactive Finance Organization Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Finance Organization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your finance function's…
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In 2023, APQC recognized eight organizations for their level of maturity in Knowledge Management (KM). This recognition was based on evaluating their KM programs using APQC’s…
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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This is an APQC guide with models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides that organizations can use in their benchmarking and process improvement efforts. These include…
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The Role of Technology in KM
AI and other technologies transform how people find and share knowledge in organizations. KM teams drive adoption while facing challenges such as leaders not seeing the value…
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Template
With highly technical processes, systems and technologies have multiple failure modes. How can it fail? What can go wrong with it? Have you ever looked at that systems view…
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This collection brings together summaries of APQC’s major process and performance management research projects from the past five years. All the summaries are open to the…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real life examples from APQC research,…
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In a recent webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek share insights on how to get started, no matter where you are in your knowledge management journey. In addition,…
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How to Leverage APQC's KM Maturity Assessment
In this webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek provide an overview of APQC's Knowledge Management Capability Assessment Tool and the process for getting started…
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How to Leverage APQC's KM Maturity Assessment
In this webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek provide an overview of APQC's Knowledge Management Capability Assessment Tool and the process for getting started…
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Seven Tenets of Process Management
Process management can revolutionize the way an organization does business and generates value. APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠ provide a clear framework any…
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Data and Measures|
Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: Information Technology (IT) Organization
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list provides a clear overview of all available measures for a specific survey. These measures are sorted by research area, the…