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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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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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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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…
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How to Create End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end understanding of work processes is critical for almost any aspect of managing business operations. In mapping out processes, organizations need to both…
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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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Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. The 2023 Process and…
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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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To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
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This infographic compares trends in organizational agility, strategic planning and implementation practices between the 2021 results of the study and the 2015 results.
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Driving Decisions: What Goes Into Strategic Planning
This infographic looks at trends around the inputs and analysis for the strategic planning process.
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Trends in Strategic Planning Practices: A Map for Success
This infographic looks at strategic planning and implementation trends.
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10 Steps to Design and Launch a Great Survey
Surveys are a great tool for research and benchmarking projects—they’re fast, cost-effective, and provide great insights into big populations. But you need to think carefully…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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Benchmarking Maturity Matrix
Organizations should regularly assess their benchmarking capabilities and progress so that initiatives can be optimized, changed, or halted. APQC has developed the…