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2024 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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The Latest Trends and Performance Levers for HR Shared Services Organizations
For more than 10 years, ScottMadden and APQC have gathered benchmarks and trends specific to HR Shared Services through a custom benchmarking study focused exclusively on the…
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Closing the Change Management Gap
At its core change management is the act of proactively managing change and minimizing the resistance to organizational change through a set of structured processes or…
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Tackling Sustainability in Procurement
Sustainability is a critical piece of an organization's supply chain strategy. Beyond addressing disruptions, sustainability considers the protection of natural resources,…
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Total Number of ERPs or ERP Instances throughout the Entire Finance Shared Services Organization
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are an important part of the shared services environment that helps organizations to standardize their processes and data. After…
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Finance Shared Services Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from the APQC/ScottMadden Finance Shared Services Benchmarking Assessments, these industry benchmarks highlight key performance indicators (KPI) for…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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Fixing Knowledge & Process Productivity Problems
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes have a bearing on an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they also impede innovation, agility,…
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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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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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Virtual Work Is Re-Defining Productivity
In this article, you will learn how virtual work is leading the way toward a more holistic, strategic, and ultimately better way of defining and measuring productivity.
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No manager likes to see their team wasting time on activities that don’t add value to the business. Many fear that virtual work offers too much freedom and that employees…
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Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…