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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…
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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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Every leader knows that culture determines the success or failure of an organization. At APQC’s 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, José Castro, Head of…
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Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. This requires organizations…
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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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Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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RPA Fundamentals with Slalom Consulting
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Investment management company Capital Group has transformed its process improvement capability from a singular continuous improvement effort to a holistic operational…
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Process management works best when the tools and mindset needed to enable it are embedded across the enterprise. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit, Christa Bol,…
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For Alvaro Caamaño (Business Process Architect, Intel), setting up a business process management (BPM) framework is like building a house: Without the right foundations and a…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. The goal of process management is to make the organization better—to give it a stronger position in…
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Ongoing Challenges for Process Efforts in 2020
Process management provides numerous benefits to the organization: increase in customer satisfaction; cost reduction; improvement in productivity; and better output from…
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APQC recently conducted a webinar that explored the findings from its 2019 process framework research. This article summarizes the question-and-answer portion of the webinar…