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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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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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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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Seven Tenets of Process Management
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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2023 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2023. This report explores trends…
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Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
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Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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Investment management company Capital Group has transformed its process improvement capability from a singular continuous improvement effort to a holistic operational…
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Process audits can be a helpful approach for evaluating performance and evolving maturity. However, many process audits are transactional and disconnected from organizational…
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Process management works best when the tools and mindset needed to enable it are embedded across the enterprise. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit, Christa Bol,…
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For Alvaro Caamaño (Business Process Architect, Intel), setting up a business process management (BPM) framework is like building a house: Without the right foundations and a…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Strategic alignment is the first of APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠. Learn how to…
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The best process people are passionate—in fact, some might even call them obsessive. When they see a bad or broken process, they dig in to learn all they can, zoom out to…