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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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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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Using data from APQC's recent Best Practices in Process Frameworks survey, this article focuses on the top two framework adoption challenges—buy-in and engagement, and…
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Couple the expanded potential with the growing accessibility and maturity of RPA technologies, and RPA is quickly becoming a staple of the process management toolbox. APQC…
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Process frameworks like APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® can be used for an array of applications, ranging from understanding an organization’s current state …
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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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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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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. The goal of process management is to make the organization better—to give it a stronger position in…
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Organizational silos negatively impact customers, employees, and the organization’s ability to innovate and be agile. How can organizations bust through these silos? At APQC…
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As a highly effective approach to quality assurance, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) focuses on continuous improvement tools and techniques to eliminate waste, increase productivity,…
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Training people and monitoring their processes’ performance ensures support for process improvement efforts, but APQC’s 2019 Putting Process Frameworks into Action survey…
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Enabling People for Sustainable Process Work
At its core, process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance, and …
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This article looks specifically at the intersection between purpose of the organization’s analytics program and the analysis for select business functions. Each page in the…