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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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Aerospace Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Telecommunications Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Utility Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Articles|
How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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Through research, APQC discovered 12 common practices for measuring corporate quality that organizations should consider. The 12 practices fall into four categories:…
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Quality Measurement
Organizations must maintain a high level of quality in both customer-facing and internal processes. Measurement is key to increasing performance, but quality is an elusive…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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Knowledge Management and Process Management: A Winning Combination for Continuous Improvement
By effectively harmonizing process and performance management (PPM) with a strong knowledge management (KM) program, organizations can realize unexpected synergy and…
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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This collection provides explanations and examples of models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides for use in benchmarking. These include tools for analysis, planning,…
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Infographics|
Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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Articles|
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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Infographics|
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…