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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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When the people involved in business activities that need to be streamlined or reimagined withdraw from the process, managing change becomes even harder than usual. These…
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Process frameworks help organizations to clarify their processes, better understand the connectivity of processes at a high level, search for process improvement…
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The goal of process management is to improve performance. Whether an organization wants to retain customers, improve cycle times, boost employee satisfaction, build more…
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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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Using data from APQC's recent Best Practices in Process Frameworks survey, this article focuses on the top two framework adoption challenges—buy-in and engagement, and…
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This article helps organizations understand how APQC’s process excellence assets and knowledge work together to empower process professionals. It includes a quick overview of…
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What is Citizen Development?
Citizen development is a practice through which non-IT employees develop and implement digital tools, automation, machine learning (ML) applications, or even AI solutions…
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2023 Managing Process Knowledge Survey Report
In early 2023, APQC conducted research to explore how process and knowledge management can be aligned to improve process performance, reduce risks, and increase employee…
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2021 saw $5.1 trillion in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and that number was expected to rise in 2022. However, organizations continued to struggle with fully reaping the…
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Driving Value Realization Through Post-Acquisition Integration
Since early 2021 mergers & acquisition deals have been on the rise. 2021 saw $5.1 trillion in M&A transactions. Though the price of these deals is also on the rise, the…
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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) are one strategic path to inorganic, organizational growth. M&A can be relied on for a wide variety of growth opportunities from product/supply…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Survey Report
Most merger & 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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Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This presentation discusses an overview of the M&A process, pre-close planning, integration planning, key points for post-acquisition integration, and multi-industry lessons…