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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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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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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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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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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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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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 870 other organizations worldwide…
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YOKE Industrial faced a number of challenges that served as the impetus for a digital transformation effort including a labor shortage, the need for better knowledge…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Measures of Quality
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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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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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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APQC interviewed Alexandra Hotaran (business process manager at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) about the organization’s journey to transition from a desktop-based pension…
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For many process professionals, working in a center of excellence is a dream job. The center of excellence model allows process to deliver maximum impact by not only by…
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Seeing the Power of Process Improvement with Continuous Improvement Specialist Greg Parlee
Some people make business decisions based on gut instinct, emotions, and short-term thinking—but not process people. Process people apply a more scientific, systems thinking…
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Standardization is integral to process work, but flexibility is important too. Process professionals need to be able to determine where to be rigorous, where to allow for…