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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Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition)
The realm of planning and management accounting is a top priority. CFOs want to speed up workflows, control process costs, leverage talent, improve the precision of forecasts…
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Building Blocks of Success: Seven Tenets of Process Management Maturity Model
APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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Taking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion From Empty Slogans to Lasting Change
The emergence and practice of DEI—especially as it pertains to the issue of workplace diversity training—has been met with skepticism in business media and popular culture…
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Current State of Learning and Development: Survey Report
In the first half of 2023, APQC launched a research study to understand how organizations are approaching learning and development (L&D) today. L&D leaders from across the…
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Reasons To Invest In Content Management
The importance of investing in enterprise content management processes and structures is becoming more apparent among organizations. Over time, the lack of effective…
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Eleven Practices of Highly Effective KM Programs
To address knowledge-related issues, many KM programs have been asked to rethink their strategies, adopt new technologies, and provide more precise strategic direction to…
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Best Practices for Establishing a Project Management Office
A project management office (PMO) is a standardized management structure that provides governance, processes, and shared resources such as methodologies, tools, and…
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Best Practices for Driving Agility: Better Structures and Strategy Practices
Through the pandemic, even the most traditional, well-established organizations gained real-world experience being agile. Now the question is whether they have the structures…
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Open Innovation: Creating Flexible Collaboration
This report leverages APQC’s ongoing research into open innovation, external expertise, and recent real-world examples in order to highlight open innovation best practices in…
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10 Steps to Get a KM Program Off the Ground
Speed to results is critical for any fledgling knowledge management program. The faster KM can switch from planning to execution and start delivering value to the business,…
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How Excellent KM Programs Measure Progress and Value
KM measurement is hard, but it’s not impossible. The key is to understand what leaders expect from KM and then select a mix of measures that communicate the quantity, quality…
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Choosing the Right Knowledge Transfer Approach
When selecting a knowledge transfer approach for a given scenario, APQC recommends familiarizing yourself with the options and then asking key questions about the nature of…
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Unparalleled Portfolio Management: Best-Practice Processes and Lessons Learned
Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Breaking the Barriers to Knowledge Sharing
To build an effective knowledge management program, you must first understand your organization's culture and what drives people's behaviors. This article describes 10 common…
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Finance Analytics: Building High-performance Structure, Tools, and Teams
Analytics has become an essential competency for today’s finance teams. This white paper summarizes key findings from a recent APQC study to understand more about what’s…