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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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2024 Top Challenges and Solutions: Project Management
Proper project management is crucial to ensuring that projects achieve success in a timely and organized fashion. Without careful management, an organization’s projects will…
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Amid the hype of technologies like AI and a constantly changing business landscape, it’s easy for organizations to forget the importance of key skills like collaboration and…
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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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Culture is a Key Foundation for Process Work
Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. In this article, APQC…
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How to Get Employee Buy-in for Measurement
For measurement to lead to tangible improvement, an organization must communicate with staff about the measures, align them with strategic objectives and actual work, analyze…
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Developing the Project Scope
Developing the project scope is essential to ensuring that the project stays on track and meets its business objectives. This article describes the components of an effective…
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Expert Advice on Change Management
In an environment where change is happening at an ever-increasing rate, knowledge and process management professionals have an important role to play in helping organizations…
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Functional and Process Focused Organizations: Basic Definitions for Business Process Management
This article describes some standard definitions, including business process management (BPM), functional-based organization, and process-focused organization, to provide…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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One thing is very clear: process management is more important than ever and its role and the people who work within it are evolving. But how do the people of process evolve…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real life examples from APQC research,…
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Challenges Faced with Adopting a Process Framework
Although the benefits of process frameworks are numerous, they are not without their challenges. Most frameworks require some modifications to account for differences in…
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Introduction to Flexible Project Management
Today’s project and process management professionals need a bigger, better, and more flexible toolkit to keep up with the pace of change. And executives need a basic…
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Visualizing a Path to Success at The Poirier Group
When managing an enterprise or business process transformation, sometimes the quickest path to helping people envision what is possible and change key behaviors is to provide…
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Seven Tenets of Process Management
Process management can revolutionize the way an organization does business and generates value. APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠ provide a clear framework any…