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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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Supporting strategic planning and the execution of its strategic initiatives is the gold star of how process teams provide high-profile, intrinsic value to their…
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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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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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In September 2021, APQC spoke with José Castro (Head of Continuous Improvement) about the organization’s journey to build a culture of continuous improvement for its shared…
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The energy and utility industry faces an unprecedented confluence of external forces. Market, environmental, geopolitical, regulatory, technical and technological, and socio…
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The State of Automation in Banking
In response to the tumult and increased regulation resulting from the 2008 global recession, the banking and financial services industry became the early adopters of robotic…
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The road to innovation is paved with failure. Not every idea is going to work, and a large percentage of experiments are bound to fail. The most innovative organizations not…
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Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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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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RPA Fundamentals with Slalom Consulting
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Investment management company Capital Group has transformed its process improvement capability from a singular continuous improvement effort to a holistic operational…
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Process management works best when the tools and mindset needed to enable it are embedded across the enterprise. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit, Christa Bol,…
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For Alvaro Caamaño (Business Process Architect, Intel), setting up a business process management (BPM) framework is like building a house: Without the right foundations and a…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…