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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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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management Supporting Content and Best Practices
This resource guides you towards the best approach to improving your business process management with detailed definitions and process steps for each of APQC's Seven Tenets…
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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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How to Analyze Process Risk
Every process has inherent risks that can result in unintended consequences. Understanding the source of risks, as well as the reliability of a process, allows an…
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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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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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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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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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As an organization grows over years, processes diverge. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, AstraZeneca’s Business Process Manager Christopher Moriak…