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.
Looking for something specific?
Ask us-
In 2023, APQC recognized eight organizations for their level of maturity in Knowledge Management (KM). This recognition was based on evaluating their KM programs using APQC’s…
-
Presentation Slides|
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…
-
Presentation Slides|
Emotional Connection and Influencing Change
Building on Bill Benjamin's framework of the Science of Emotional Intelligence, this presentation explores powerful new concepts, applications, and strategies that improves…
-
Presentation Slides|
How to Be an Influencer: What It Takes to Shape Organizational Culture
In the face of disruptions like COVID-19 and trends like the Great Resignation, the stakes of culture are higher than ever for organizations. Outdated mindsets threaten…
-
Presentation Slides|
Open Innovation: Realizing the Value of Ecosystem Collaboration
As organizations are transitioning to increasingly open business models, open innovation has become an essential driver of growth. IBM and APQC have been researching open…
-
Presentation Slides|
Pratt & Whitney Operations Process Classification Framework (PCF) Journey
Pratt & Whitney is an aerospace engine manufacturer with many diverse and complex operations processes. Senior leadership recognized that the organization had strong…
-
Articles|
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…
-
No matter how smart and capable your employees are, they will struggle to work together effectively if they operate in silos. Process management helps organizations dismantle…
-
As organizations seek to thrive through chaos and change, emotional intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand skillsets. Emotional intelligence is the…
-
To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
-
Articles|
Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
-
Business process management delivers real benefit to organizations. See several examples of definitive gains from best-practice organizations identified by APQC here.
-
Articles|
Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
-
Developing a knowledge or process management program is never easy, but a time-tested framework can help you reach your goals faster and avoid common mistakes. In this…
-
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…