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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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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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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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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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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Productivity is a Well-Balanced Meal
APQC conducted a survey to explore the current state of productivity from the perspective of full-time knowledge workers. This infographic looks at the definition of and…
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No manager likes to see their team wasting time on activities that don’t add value to the business. Many fear that virtual work offers too much freedom and that employees…
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Knowledge workers’ face broken, ad hoc, and inefficient processes which result in wasted time, creativity, job satisfaction, and poor quality. APQC surveyed knowledge workers…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Survey Report
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Digital Twin: The Age of Aquarius in Construction and Real Estate
This white paper provides an overview of digital twin technology and why C-suite leaders should begin adopting digital twins as a conduit for their digital real estate…
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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Digital Transformation in the Utilities Industry Survey Report
Digital Transformation spans or blurs the boundaries between the Information Technology (IT) domains and Operational Technology domains for utilities. It’s not just about how…