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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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How to Use APQC's Process Audit Template
Process audits help organizations to evaluate the health of a specific process or process group. Organizations looking to evaluate the maturity of their entire process…
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Process frameworks like APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® can be used for an array of applications, ranging from understanding an organization’s current state …
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Process maturity and process management maturity are sometimes used interchangeably; however, they are two very different things. This infographic briefly highlights the…
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Process Audits and Process Maturity Assessments: What They Are and How They Are Different
Process audits and process maturity assessments are valuable practices that can help organizations get the most out of their process work. When used effectively, process…
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APQC's Process Maturity Model
Process audits help organizations to evaluate the health of a specific process or process group. Most often, they are used to determine critical gaps in understanding,…
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Building Blocks of Success: Seven Tenets of Process Management Maturity Model
APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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Culture is a Key Foundation for Process Work
Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. In this article, APQC…
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End-to-End Process Benefits and Challenges
An end-to-end (E2E) process refers to a cross-functional process that comprises all the steps necessary to accomplish a specific business goal. Creating and mapping an E2E…
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While E2E processes carry many benefits, the work of creating, defining, and managing these processes is a challenge for many organizations—especially given their numerous,…
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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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Knowledge Management and Process Management: A Winning Combination for Continuous Improvement
By effectively harmonizing process and performance management (PPM) with a strong knowledge management (KM) program, organizations can realize unexpected synergy and…
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Each year, APQC surveys process and performance management (PPM) professionals to understand their common challenges and priorities for the year. In advance of the 2024…
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Process Audit Fundamentals
This article outlines the key components of an effective process audit, the most important considerations for each stage of the audit, and gives concrete recommendations for…
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Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…