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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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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Value of Benchmarking in Supply Chain
Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a chosen set of variables internally or externally against others. APQC global research has found that organizations…
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Evolution of Benchmarking: A Supply Chain Perspective
Benchmarking has been and continues to be one of the most popular management tools. There is a critical need to look towards the future and understand how it will continue to…
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Top 5 Benchmarking Challenges and Tips to Address Them
Benchmarking is an invaluable tool for organizations improving how they conduct business—it provides context on performance and helps pinpoint new practices. Throughout the…
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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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Guidelines for Survey Design
Good survey design is key to achieving reliable and actionable insights from research and benchmarking projects. Survey designers need to create questions that accurately…
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Benchmarking Maturity Matrix
Organizations should regularly assess their benchmarking capabilities and progress so that initiatives can be optimized, changed, or halted. APQC has developed the…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…