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Business stakeholders often underestimate the amount of time, labor, and other resources that it takes to implement robotic process automation (RPA) effectively. At APQC's…
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Empowered Employees Improve Productivity
Most organizations are riddled with inefficiencies that can and should be fixed. But leaders often struggle to see these productivity drains, much less fix them, because they…
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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland disprove three productivity myths and offer guidance for workers and leaders based on APQC’s Fixing Knowledge &…
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Best Practices for Establishing a Project Management Office
A project management office (PMO) is a standardized management structure that provides governance, processes, and shared resources such as methodologies, tools, and…
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A project management office (PMO) is a standardized management structure that provides governance, processes, and shared resources such as methodologies, tools, and…
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No manager likes to see their team wasting time on activities that don’t add value to the business. Many fear that virtual work offers too much freedom and that employees…
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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…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Survey Report
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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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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In this podcast, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland talks with Paul Fjelsta and Kaylen Malley about employee engagement, support, and empowerment to drive sustainable improvements.
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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Six Core Capabilities for Resilence: Q&A
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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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…
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