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2022 Finance Management Priorities
In the fourth quarter of 2021, APQC conducted its annual survey of finance professionals to explore the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges APQC members and customers…
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Three-fourths of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey ranked process improvement as the top priority for their finance functions in 2022. In…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper and Megan McCulloch talk with Dan French, CEO of Consider Solutions, about how finance professionals can improve processes in 2022. …
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This case study explores how one organization built a top-down and bottom-up improvement process that uses meta data and integrated systems to automate the submission and…
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Fixing Knowledge and Process Productivity Problems Survey Questions
In 2021, APQC conducted a large-scale research study on the productivity of knowledge workers. The project was designed to gauge how workers think about personal and team…
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Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. This requires organizations…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Analysis by Organization Size
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Fixing Knowledge & Process Productivity Problems
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes have a bearing on an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they also impede innovation, agility,…
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Empowered Employees Improve Productivity
Most organizations are riddled with inefficiencies that can and should be fixed. But leaders often struggle to see these productivity drains, much less fix them, because they…
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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland disprove three productivity myths and offer guidance for workers and leaders based on APQC’s Fixing Knowledge &…
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Assessing Process Management Improvement Tools Activity Sheet
The following tool is a useful way to stimulate conversation about process management both within and between organizational groups. Using this tool, process management…