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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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Where in the Organization Are the Process People?
Process management is aimed at defining a process, establishing responsibilities, evaluating process performance, and identifying opportunities for improvement. This goal for…
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Who Are the People of Process?
Process management is aimed at defining a process, establishing responsibilities, evaluating process performance, and identifying opportunities for improvement. This goal for…
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Functional and Process Focused Organizations: Basic Definitions for Business Process Management
This article describes some standard definitions, including business process management (BPM), functional-based organization, and process-focused organization, to provide…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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One thing is very clear: process management is more important than ever and its role and the people who work within it are evolving. But how do the people of process evolve…
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In 2023, APQC conducted the People of Process Management survey to gain insight into the people who support process and performance management (PPM) work and better…
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The most common way organizations use the PCF in their mapping efforts is as a reference list of processes to consider during their mapping—so they don’t have to start from…
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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…
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Top 5 Reasons to Manage Process Knowledge
Standardized, well-documented, and optimized business processes and knowledge management are essential for effective organizational function. Collaboration between process…
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How to Overcome Barriers to Managing Process Knowledge
Effective organizations require standardized, well-documented, and optimized business processes and knowledge management. However, process and KM teams often operate…
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Key Roles Involved in Managing Process Knowledge
For an organization to function effectively, standardized, well-documented, and optimized business processes and knowledge management are essential. Although process and KM…
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For an organization to operate effectively, it is crucial to have standardized, well-documented, and optimized business processes and knowledge management. Even though…
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APQC’s Process Classification Framework® (PCF) provides a common language that allows organizations to communicate and define work processes regardless of their industry,…
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Using data from APQC's recent Best Practices in Process Frameworks survey, this article focuses on the top two framework adoption challenges—buy-in and engagement, and…
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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…