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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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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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2024 Top Challenges and Solutions: Process Management
The top priorities and challenges in process management have not changed significantly in recent years. Organizations are still grappling with shifting to end-to-end…
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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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In our annual Process and Performance Management Priorities research, APQC surveyed 162 process and performance management professionals to identify common challenges and…
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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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Customer Journey Maps: Driving End-User-Focused Improvement
Customer journey maps are one technique organizations use to merge customer-centricity, data, and process to drive improvements. This infographic helps organizations better…
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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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Introduction to Customer Journey Mapping
Leading organizations use customer journey mapping to turn customer data into actionable insights. In this article, you will learn about the key features and benefits of…
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Process automation has nearly limitless potential as a means of improving efficiency, reducing errors, and saving time and money. However, most organizations have neither the…
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Couple the expanded potential with the growing accessibility and maturity of RPA technologies, and RPA is quickly becoming a staple of the process management toolbox. APQC…
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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: …