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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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Now in the Resource Library: Process and Performance Management
This report provides an overview of recently released content in APQC's Resource Library, and upcoming research. Topics include business process management, benchmarking,…
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Process is the thread that connects the overall strategy and vision of an enterprise to the day-to-day operations of its members. But as an organization gets larger and more…
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Make People Productive Without Driving Them Crazy
Organizations want their employees to be more productive—and most employees want that too. But despite everyone’s good intentions, the median knowledge worker spends 25…
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Busy but not productive: it is the feeling that everyone dreads. At APQC's 2022 PPM and KM Conference, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Cindy Hubert led a general session on…
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Fixing Knowledge and Process Productivity Problems Survey Questions
In 2021, APQC conducted a large-scale research study on the productivity of knowledge workers. The project was designed to gauge how workers think about personal and team…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Analysis by Organization Size
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Managing Employee Productivity
Productivity refers to the effectiveness and efficiency of work, and it’s a crucial factor in the success or failure of any enterprise. Organizations often focus productivity…
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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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How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Generation Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Role Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Organizational Culture Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Human Capital Management/HR
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Virtual Work Is Re-Defining Productivity
In this article, you will learn how virtual work is leading the way toward a more holistic, strategic, and ultimately better way of defining and measuring productivity.
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No manager likes to see their team wasting time on activities that don’t add value to the business. Many fear that virtual work offers too much freedom and that employees…