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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management in Depth
Process management can revolutionize the way an organization does business and generates value. APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠ provide a clear framework any…
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Getting the Most Out of Performance Measurement
Performance measurement can present tricky challenges for management, especially when dealing with cultural resistance. This collection of articles explains how to implement…
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Managing Change
Most improvements in organizations require some degree of change. Navigating new territory and supporting employees through the change takes planning and care. This…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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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,…
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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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Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Managing Change for Digital Work
APQC has surveyed and interviewed hundreds of organizations about their digital transformation initiatives over the past two years, and we consistently find that change…
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Digital transformation is hard. The good news is that most organizations already have the skills to address digital challenges: They just need to rally and focus the right…
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The term project isn’t an accurate description for digital transformation—or at least, it shouldn’t be. True digital transformation is not a one-and-done acquisition of…
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Preparing to shift toward a data-driven culture—a change that has as much to do with people as it does with data—is, accordingly, largely a people-centric activity. This is…
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Rolling out Analytics Capabilities
In previous research on change management, Transformational Change—Making It Last, APQC found that the key components of managing or rolling out any change, especially one…
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There’s an old business adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Best-practice organizations keep the emphasis on change objectives through targeted measures of…
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Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations, and with good reason. According to a 2014 Economist Intelligence Unit survey of 362 global…