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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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Effective customer service helps ensure that your customers are repeat buyers, your brand maintains a good reputation, and the money you invest in customer service is well…
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Making Leaps in Your Customer Service Performance
To assess whether your organization is doing well in customer service, it’s essential to choose the relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate your customer…
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Benchmarking your organization’s customer service function is critical for finding improvement opportunities, discovering trends over time, and more. But choosing the right…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight (Visio)
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight (Excel)
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures: Idea-to-Market
A common struggle for any end-to-end process management is identifying the right measures that encapsulate the value of the process. This article contains key performance…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures: Idea-to-Market (Visio)
A common struggle for any end-to-end process management is identifying the right measures that encapsulate the value of the process. This Visio file includes the maps…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures: Idea-to-Market (Excel)
A common struggle for any end-to-end process management is identifying the right measures that encapsulate the value of the process. This Excel file includes the lists of…
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In 2023, APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., that took a detailed look at the top KPIs organizations employ to measure customer service and order management…
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Customer Journey Maps: Driving End-User-Focused Improvement
Customer journey maps are one technique organizations use to merge customer-centricity, data, and process to drive improvements. This infographic helps organizations better…
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Engagement and Retention: Survey Results Snapshot for the Retail and Wholesale Industry
This report explores engagement and retention trends and practices among the organizations that completed APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® Talent Management Performance…
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Process Management Paradigm Shift
Competencies in Lean, Six Sigma, or business process management are no longer enough for process teams to support their organizations’ needs. Accelerated changes in the…
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Three Steps for More Effective Customer Service
Through customer service research sponsored by Esker Inc. in August 2022, APQC discovered three important steps that any organization should make sure to carry out for…
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Customer expectations have changed as a result of recent disruptions and global health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its customer service research, APQC finds…