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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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What Supports Accurate Spend Analysis
Supply chain organizations are always looking for greater visibility into spending. Spend analysis enables procurement professionals to identify the value of spending with…
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Emerging Technologies for KM: Artificial Intelligence
In February 2024, APQC conducted a survey to understand the impact of current and emerging technologies on KM teams, programs, and capabilities.This report examines how…
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Sustainability in Supply Chains: Navigating the ESG Landscape
These presentation slides correspond to an April 2024 webinar where Marisa Brown, APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, co-presented with Craig…
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Total Cost to Acquire Talent
Two trends are putting significant pressure on the cost to acquire talent: 1) scarcity of talent with the latest, most-in-demand skills and 2) competition to provide a…
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Talent Acquisition Tune-Up Diagnostic
In a competitive talent market, successfully meeting business objectives requires talent acquisition practices that differentiate your organization from other employers. Yet,…
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Effective customer service helps ensure that your customers are repeat buyers, your brand maintains a good reputation, and the money you invest in customer service is well…
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Process management activities like documentation, standardization, and digitization all help organizations to optimize their processes and enable continuous improvement. But…
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A skills taxonomy is a standard framework that provides a common language for skills and maps their connection to other skills as well as jobs. With a common language to…
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Digital and Its Role in Process Webinar
Understanding how digital tools and technologies impact process and performance management (PPM) and the organizations they support is crucial to enable our members to be…
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Design Thinking for Knowledge Management
Design thinking can assist knowledge management professionals in comprehending the requirements of their internal customers (i.e., end-users) and devising innovative…
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Particularly among small and medium-sized organizations, late customer payments are increasingly impeding cashflow management, negatively affecting strategic decision making,…
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Content Management in the Era of AI Presentation Slides
Good technology platforms, processes, and content management capabilities are critical to implementing and leveraging AI effectively. But for those who want to plug and play,…
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APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® is a reliable and robust framework used by hundreds of leading companies worldwide. This article includes questions and answers…
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When leaders think about what they need most to improve their supply chain processes, soft skills like change management and collaboration may not come to mind immediately…
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HR Strategy and Planning Productivity
In evaluating HR process group and process performance, HR staff productivity is an essential consideration. Generally speaking, high levels of HR staff productivity can…