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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Boundless Benchmarking: Revolutionizing Business Models With Open Standards
Benchmarking continues its reign as one of the most popular and effective management tools used. Even great management tools cannot stand still and must evolve if they are to…
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Why and How We Benchmark
Benchmarking provides context for decision making and managing performance. Benchmarking helps organizations compare the performance of their products or processes for an…
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Pushing the Boundaries of Benchmarking
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools cannot stand still and need to look towards the future on how it will…
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Partners for Performance: Benchmarking and Process Mining
Benchmarking and process mining are two key tools organizations can use to understand and improve performance. Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a…
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Benchmarking 2022: Evolution of Strategic Value Survey Report
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look towards the future…
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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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Guidelines for Survey Design
Good survey design is key to achieving reliable and actionable insights from research and benchmarking projects. Survey designers need to create questions that accurately…
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Developing good benchmarking partnerships is crucial to continued improvement. This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…
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In-Person Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may decide to visit that organization in person…
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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may set up a virtual visit to the organization. Often…
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Benchmarking Site Visit Checklist
If your benchmarking team decides to conduct in-depth research at another organization, it can use this checklist to ensure that it properly prepares for the visit, has what…
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Benchmarking Maturity Matrix
Organizations should regularly assess their benchmarking capabilities and progress so that initiatives can be optimized, changed, or halted. APQC has developed the…
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Types of Benchmarking
This articles explains the different types of benchmarking an organization can employ to learn and transfer best practices: metric, process, internal, competitive, and…