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How to Apply Process Frameworks
This collection provides "how to" guidance and best practices for the top applications of process frameworks, including APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF)®.
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Leveraging a process framework as a foundational pillar for business process management (BPM) is a best practice. Many organizations have adopted and adapted APQC’s Process…
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What are End-To-End Processes and How Do Organizations Use Them?
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They address large-scale…
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Process frameworks help organizations to clarify their processes, better understand the connectivity of processes at a high level, search for process improvement…
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Managing Process Knowledge
Business processes and associated knowledge are essential to an organization's effective operation. Process and KM teams aim to document, standardize, and optimize how work…
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As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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Creating End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end understanding of work processes is critical for almost any aspect of managing business operations. In mapping out processes, organizations need to both…
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The most common way organizations use the PCF in their mapping efforts is as a reference list of processes to consider during their mapping—so they don’t have to start from…
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Tools to Evolve BPM's Strategic Value
In our recent research on process automation, APQC found that business process management is potentially more important than ever before. Process management has many of the…
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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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Portable metrology provider Advanced Industrial Machine Solutions needed a more robust approach to document management. Thus, the company leveraged APQC’s Process…
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TRaVIS - Documentation Management for Small Businesses
As a startup company, Advanced Industrial Machine Solutions needed to manage its documents but had little time to design a document management system. In this session,…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Process models aren't tiny add-ons that make process management work better. They are essential to an…
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Process Mining 101: Bridging Data and Process for Real-World Insights
Process mining is a process analysis method that, in many ways, turns traditional business process management (BPM) on its head. Instead of analyzing processes with sticky…
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Enabling Technology for Digital Transformation and Streamlined Processes
Today’s organizations contend with a distributed workforce, inefficient processes, increased competition, and customer demand, which are all key drivers of digital…