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Why Apply Process Mining?
Process mining offers an array of benefits. It uses event logs and data visualization to create an objective view of the current state process, including potential…
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Benchmarking continues its reign as one of the most popular and effective management tools used by organizations around the world. However, even the best management tools…
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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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APQC's Benchmarking Project Plan Template (Excel Template)
Organizations can fill out this template as they plan new benchmarking projects. It provides guidance for writing a benchmarking value proposition, determining measures and…
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Organizational Readiness Assessment for Benchmarking (Excel Template)
Is your organization prepared to undertake a benchmarking initiative? Complete this assessment to determine what foundational elements need to be in place to begin new…
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APQC's Benchmarking Alignment Worksheet (Excel Template)
For benchmarking to truly benefit an organization, benchmarking projects must align with organizational strategy and be connected with actual work. APQC's Benchmarking…
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In-Person Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may decide to visit that organization in person…
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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may set up a virtual visit to the organization. Often…
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Benchmarking Site Visit Checklist
If your benchmarking team decides to conduct in-depth research at another organization, it can use this checklist to ensure that it properly prepares for the visit, has what…
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APQC's Benchmarking Alignment Worksheet
For benchmarking to truly benefit an organization, benchmarking projects must align with organizational strategy and be connected with actual work. APQC's Benchmarking…
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Benchmarking Maturity Matrix
Organizations should regularly assess their benchmarking capabilities and progress so that initiatives can be optimized, changed, or halted. APQC has developed the…
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Developing good benchmarking partnerships is crucial to continued improvement. This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…
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Benchmarking Partner Selection Tool
This matrix tool is often used by benchmarking teams to determine which organizations to partner with in a study. This article explains how to use the matrix to ensure that…