Resource Library
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 is the thread that connects the overall strategy and vision of an enterprise to the day-to-day operations of its members. But as an organization gets larger and more…
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Busy but not productive: it is the feeling that everyone dreads. At APQC's 2022 PPM and KM Conference, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Cindy Hubert led a general session on…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Analysis by Organization Size
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Managing Employee Productivity
Productivity refers to the effectiveness and efficiency of work, and it’s a crucial factor in the success or failure of any enterprise. Organizations often focus productivity…
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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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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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Webinars & Videos|
How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Reports & White Papers|
Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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This infographic explains the reasons why knowledge workers want to boost their productivity and how a lack of productivity support from employers makes them more stressed,…
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This infographic outlines why peer mentoring and coaching is one of the best tools to help employees improve their productivity, as well as the specific ways that…
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Nearly two-thirds of knowledge workers say most of the knowledge they use to do their work is only in their heads. This infographic explains how poor knowledge documentation…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Generation Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Infographics|
4 Ways to Stop Ineffective Meetings
This infographic reviews four ways to stop ineffective meetings, one of the biggest time wasters APQC found in a recent research project on knowledge and process productivity…
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Infographics|
Stop Wasting 10% of Knowledge Workers' Time
This infographic reviews four key actions that organizations can take to fix findability problems. Knowledge workers whose organizations have taken these steps are…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Role Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…