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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2023 Managing Process Knowledge: Financial Services/Banking Industry Report
In 2023, APQC conducted research to identify the correlation between process performance and knowledge management to maximize process performance, mitigate risks, and improve…
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2023 Managing Process Knowledge: Services Industry Report
In 2023, APQC conducted research to identify the correlation between process performance and knowledge management to maximize process performance, mitigate risks, and improve…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions: Financial Services/Banking Industry
Most mergers & acquisition (M&A) deals tend to fall apart in the integration phase. Whether it’s underestimating the costs of integrations, setting unrealistic timelines,…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a hot topic in today’s financial news, but M&A is a tricky growth strategy with a high failure rate. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge…
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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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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Financial Services/Banking
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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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Services
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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Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…
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Investment management company Capital Group has transformed its process improvement capability from a singular continuous improvement effort to a holistic operational…
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Value Stream Mapping with the Vanguard Group
In The Vanguard Group’s old state, it was operating in business silos. It was a very inefficient process which led to multiple handoffs; a staggering 45 percent of work was…
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When digital transformation initiatives fail to deliver value to an organization, leaders rightly wonder whether the time and resources devoted to these efforts are well…
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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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Most people understand that process improvement is valuable, but executives want to know how it will impact the bottom line. Overhauling complex business processes takes time…
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Many companies are embracing Agile, a project management paradigm that stresses iteration, collaboration, self-organization, and customer centricity. However, people are…