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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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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Mining Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Electronics Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Financial Services/Banking Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Telecommunications Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Government/Military Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Healthcare Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Through research, APQC discovered 12 common practices for measuring corporate quality that organizations should consider. The 12 practices fall into four categories:…
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How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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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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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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In 2023, APQC recognized eight organizations for their level of maturity in Knowledge Management (KM). This recognition was based on evaluating their KM programs using APQC’s…