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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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Data-Driven Culture: How to Nurture, Lead, and Sustain It
To become a data-driven organization, you need a data-driven culture. When your organizational culture prizes evidence-based decisions over hunches and subjective judgements,…
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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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Culture is a Key Foundation for Process Work
Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. In this article, APQC…
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How to Get Employee Buy-in for Measurement
For measurement to lead to tangible improvement, an organization must communicate with staff about the measures, align them with strategic objectives and actual work, analyze…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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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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Process Management Paradigm Shift
Competencies in Lean, Six Sigma, or business process management are no longer enough for process teams to support their organizations’ needs. Accelerated changes in the…
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Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. The 2023 Process and…
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Tackling the Measure Selection Process
To stay resilient in a fast-changing and highly competitive environment, organizations must have a good handle on their performance data. But many organizations struggle with…
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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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Every leader knows that culture determines the success or failure of an organization. At APQC’s 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, José Castro, Head of…
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Creating Indexes
An index is a way to create a composite measure by aggregating multiple measures into a single indicator (e.g., gender gap, productivity, cost of living adjustment, or job…
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Unparalleled Portfolio Management: Best-Practice Processes and Lessons Learned
Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Project Portfolio Management: Ensuring Objective Comparisons for Portfolio Decision Making
To ensure alignment with organizational goals-be they revenue, market based, or organizational performance or improvement-the first step of creating a portfolio is a…