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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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Process management activities like documentation, standardization, and digitization all help organizations to optimize their processes and enable continuous improvement. But…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Comparison by Organizational Size
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Comparison by Revenue
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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Applying End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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End-to-End Process Benefits and Challenges
An end-to-end (E2E) process refers to a cross-functional process that comprises all the steps necessary to accomplish a specific business goal. Creating and mapping an E2E…
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While E2E processes carry many benefits, the work of creating, defining, and managing these processes is a challenge for many organizations—especially given their numerous,…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Services Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Process Management Function
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends for…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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Electric utilities have industry-wide reliability standards to measure the duration and frequency of power outages. But how were these standards established? It wasn’t a…
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Knowledge Management and Process Management: A Winning Combination for Continuous Improvement
By effectively harmonizing process and performance management (PPM) with a strong knowledge management (KM) program, organizations can realize unexpected synergy and…
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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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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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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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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,…