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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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To learn more about the goals, challenges, career paths, and future plans of today’s finance professionals, APQC launched the “People of Finance” series to share the stories…
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This blinded, retrospective case study shares the story of a grassroots effort―the Finance in the Business program, a knowledge sharing program by finance for finance―to…
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Effective Communications in Times of Change—Plan Now or Pay Later!
Thoughtful and focused communications can calm and reassure your employees, while reactive communication causes undue stress on everyone, including your clients. Download…
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Many organizational functions have clear career paths. If you like numbers, you can study accounting, find an entry-level accounting position, earn your CPA, and work your…
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Engaging Employees in Process Work at CF Industries
Engaging employees in process work is never easy. CF Industries recognized this fact during a migration from SAP to a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool…
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The best time to learn something is when you need to learn it. This concept is called the “teachable moment,” a time when someone is faced with a new situation, problem, or…
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To fully engage their audience, knowledge management teams need be creative about when, where, and how they provide training. If training happens in the wrong context or the…
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Most employees need encouragement and guidance to feel comfortable submitting or sharing their knowledge. However, some overeager contributors flood KM systems with content…
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Few individuals can influence the success or failure of knowledge management (KM) as much as knowledge leaders such as subject matter experts, mentors, or community of…
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Executives can motivate large numbers of employees to get on board with KM by promoting its value and role-modeling knowledge-sharing behaviors. However, these leaders are…
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Reinforce and Refresh KM Training as Needed
If employees don’t have (or don’t think they have) an immediate need to use KM, they may forget how and why to do so. Even employees with good KM habits need refreshers,…
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The Business Case for Engaging Employees
This article presents data and information that help build a business case for investments in employee engagement, explaining what engagement is, why employers should care…
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Drawing from the results of APQC’s 2019 Engagement and the Employee Experience survey, this article gives an overview of the practices, approaches, and methods that leading…
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To combat operational silos limiting process improvement efforts, Vanguard developed a structured approach to engage the business in value stream mapping, which allowed it to…
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Managing Knowledge Across the Employee Lifecycle
Every employee can benefit from knowledge management, but a new hire will benefit from different KM resources and activities than an expert nearing retirement. In this…
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