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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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Process management activities like documentation, standardization, and digitization all help organizations to optimize their processes and enable continuous improvement. But…
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APQC's Process Excellence Assets
This is a collection of APQC's process excellence assets, that work together to empower process professionals and their organizations.
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At the close of 2023, APQC's process and performance management group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2024…
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Amid the hype of technologies like AI and a constantly changing business landscape, it’s easy for organizations to forget the importance of key skills like collaboration and…
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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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In our annual Process and Performance Management Priorities research, APQC surveyed 162 process and performance management professionals to identify common challenges and…
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Turning skeptics into believers—or better yet, champions—requires strategically reframing process improvement initiatives to highlight the specific value they provide for…
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When the people involved in business activities that need to be streamlined or reimagined withdraw from the process, managing change becomes even harder than usual. These…
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Building the Business Case for Process Management
Organizations are often looking to make a business case for setting up a process management program. This collection contains content that discusses the return on investment…
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There is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing process work—The structure of business process management (BPM) programs will vary based on factors like an organization’s…
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One-fourth of organizations are focused on linking their process management efforts to organizational strategy. Without a clear focus for process work, process teams will…
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Process management is a management practice or approach that defines the governance of specific business processes, enabling improved business agility and operational…
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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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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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In December 2023, APQC’s Madison Lundquist (Principal Research Lead, Process and Performance Management) and Kelli South (Research Manager) conducted a webinar to discuss the…