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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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Financial Evaluation of New Products
How long does it take your finance team to perform financial evaluations for new products? Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this…
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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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APQC's Benchmarking Methodology
APQC's four-phase benchmarking methodology can guide organizations through the benchmarking process and into sustained improvement. These steps, gleaned from two decades of…
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What is Benchmarking?
Following a rigorous process is essential to any successful benchmarking program. This article explains APQC's approach to benchmarking, detailing APQC's four-phased…
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Finance Organization Key Benchmarks
Featuring data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® for the finance organization, the articles in this collection highlight key cost, productivity, cycle time, and…
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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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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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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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Benchmarking Dos and Don'ts
Benchmarking – the process of comparing and learning from the best practices of other companies – is an essential tool for growth in today’s business world. For leaders…
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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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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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In a recent webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek share insights on how to get started, no matter where you are in your knowledge management journey. In addition,…
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The Future of Benchmarking
As markets and industries grow more interconnected, benchmarking is expanding in both importance and scope. This article explores six areas where benchmarking is expected to…
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Automate to Elevate: Unlocking the Value Potential of AI-Powered Process Mining
A new era in digitally powered process improvement is here, fueled by a combination of rapidly advancing AI and improved access to the enormous enterprise resource planning …
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The annual close comes during one of the heaviest workload periods of the year for accountants, as month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes converge in a…