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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 7,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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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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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real-life examples from APQC research,…
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Several years ago, Boone County Schools applied process and performance management principles to its operations department to generate over a million dollars in savings. Now,…
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When Dr. Todd Cramer started as its superintendent, the Maumee City School district had many areas that needed improvement. During APQC’s 2019 Process and Performance…
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Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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Process management teams are feeling pressure to “adapt or die.” In a recent APQC survey, 88 percent of respondents said that process management teams have to change their…
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Organizations need a process framework for benchmarking, managing processes, and improving performance. Additionally given that the 2015 updates to ISO 9001 standards have a…
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Relating Integration of Frameworks and Certification Standards with Process Maturity and Intent
APQC recently conducted a survey to understand how organizations leverage its Process Classification Framework® (PCF) and identify how they can overcome some of the…
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Auditing the Smart Way: Combining Certification Standards with Process Frameworks
Integrating or aligning quality audits with internal process management, organizations are able to improve the ease of their external audits and reduce redundant or…
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Identifying the right functions is only part of the solution to helping organizations collaborate to focus on operational goals. Organizations also need to ensure an…
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Organizations agree that some functions need to integrate—either through coordination and collaboration, or through consolidating teams into a single function—to help the…
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Why Integrate for Operational Excellence?
Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. This requires organizations to…
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Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. However in many organizations…
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Breaking Down Silos for Operational Excellence (Best Practices Report)
Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. However in many organizations…
