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Through research, APQC discovered 12 common practices for measuring corporate quality that organizations should consider. The 12 practices fall into four categories:…
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Quality Measurement
Organizations must maintain a high level of quality in both customer-facing and internal processes. Measurement is key to increasing performance, but quality is an elusive…
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How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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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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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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Key Benchmarks for Common Measures of Quality
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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How to Use RPA & AI to Hyper-automate Your Processes: Drive Productivity Up and Costs Down
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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World Class Journey- Implementing Business Process Management Across Intel Finance
In late 2018, Intel's Finance World Class Program triggered a project to design and implement a Business Process Management (BPM) framework. The goal of this effort was to…
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Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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How to Use RPA & AI to Hyper-automate Your Processes: Drive Productivity Up and Costs Down
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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Presentation Slides|
World Class Journey- Implementing Business Process Management Across Intel Finance
In late 2018, Intel's Finance World Class Program triggered a project to design and implement a Business Process Management (BPM) framework. The goal of this effort was to…
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Presentation Slides|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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Articles|
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…