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Drawing from APQC’s case study research as well as interviews with professionals who are responsible for shaping culture in their organizations, this article discusses the…
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Where Culture Goes Wrong
This article reviews some of the common ways in which culture goes wrong in organizations. The scenarios speak to the importance of practices like change management, soft…
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The Role of PPM Professionals in Culture
While there may be good reasons to believe that culture work should be left to HR and executives, it simply isn’t true. HR and executives might play a larger role in driving…
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ScottMadden’s research shows that top-performing HR shared services organizations’ staffing levels are approximately 2-5 times more efficient while operating costs are 20%-40…
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Keys to Great HR Shared Services
APQC and ScottMadden partner to collect benchmarks on HR shared services organizations. In an email interview with APQC, ScottMadden explained why continuous improvement is…
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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This article breaks down: Why spans and layers matter; how organizations can work to optimize spans and layers; traditional considerations that guide decision…
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What Is a Learning Organization?
Drawing on expertise from scholars and practitioners, this article introduces the concept of the learning organization by giving an overview of: The benefits of being a…
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Six Core Capabilities for Resilence: Q&A
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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Collins Aerospace, one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products, has leveraged process management for over 20 years. However, the organization…
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Although Collins Aerospace, has used process management for over 20 years, it needed to improve the adoption, ease of use, and scalability of its process management efforts…
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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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Six Keys to Organizational Resiliency
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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The Next 90 Days: Educators' Perspective
While there are still many uncertainties around COVID-19, ranging from its economic impact to the potential for a second wave, organizations are pivoting to building…
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