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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Understanding Process Knowledge
Process management and knowledge management are separate but related fields that aim to improve organizational efficiency. Organizations are increasingly recognizing the…
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Process frameworks are an incredibly useful tool for jumpstarting process discovery, developing a common language for processes, creating end-to-end process maps, and more…
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Best Practices in Applying Process Frameworks: 2021 Survey Report
In July 2021, APQC conducted its bi-annual Best Practices in Process Frameworks survey to learn how organizations are using process frameworks, the common adoption practices,…
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APQC launched its Effective Change Management Practices survey to discover and help organizations learn leading practices that can strengthen their approach to change. As a…
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Key Considerations for Process Governance
In April 2021, APQC hosted a roundtable discussion with process professionals to share pain points, challenges, and success stories around process governance. Participants…
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Utilizing APQC's PCF for Process Discovery
APQC’s Process Classification Framework® (PCF) is an incredibly useful tool for jumpstarting process discovery, developing a common language for processes, creating end-to…
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The Future of Benchmarking
As markets and industries grow more interconnected, benchmarking is expanding in both importance and scope. This article explores six areas where benchmarking is expected to…
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Evolution of Benchmarking: A Supply Chain Perspective
Benchmarking has been and continues to be one of the most popular management tools. There is a critical need to look towards the future and understand how it will continue to…
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Top 5 Benchmarking Challenges and Tips to Address Them
Benchmarking is an invaluable tool for organizations improving how they conduct business—it provides context on performance and helps pinpoint new practices. Throughout the…
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Created from our best practice research and hands-on experience helping organizations get the most from their process efforts, APQC’s Process Analysis and Design Methodology…
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Managing Processes Within Management Systems
In the May 2023 webinar The Art of Managing Processes Within Management Systems, APQC’s Madison Lundquist (Principal Research Lead, Process & Performance Management) sat down…
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The Process Lifecycle
For process management to be sustainable, each organization must define the lifecycle of its processes. By understanding and controlling a process lifecycle, an organization…
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Taking a Process Approach to Management
A traditional management approach involves managing departments or functional units divided by responsibility. According to Colin Christmas (Managing Director, EAGLE…
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Driving Benchmarking Forward
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look toward the future…
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Guide to Change Management Methodologies
Using a proven and appropriate change management methodology has several advantages, including tracking where the organization is in the transformation process and enabling…