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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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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2023
At the close of 2022, APQC's process and performance management group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2023…
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Barriers to Better Benchmarking
Benchmarking plays an important role in organizational decision making and transformation. Its foundational elements revolve around establishing measures, developing a…
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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 with a Purpose
Benchmarking plays an important role in organizational decision making and transformation. Its foundational elements revolve around setting organizations up for performance…
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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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Boundless Benchmarking: Revolutionizing Business Models With Open Standards
Benchmarking continues its reign as one of the most popular and effective management tools used. Even great management tools cannot stand still and must evolve if they are to…
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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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Technology Implementation Success Starts With Your Process Team
APQC’s Principal Research Lead, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, discusses how process teams support technology implementation and why 3 key stakeholders need to work together and the…
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Organizations invest significant resources like time, money, and FTE hours into selecting and implementing new technologies. But without a systematic approach to implement…
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What are Process Strategic Initiatives?
APQC’s Principal Research Lead, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland discusses what process strategic initiatives mean and what’s processes roll in them. Strategic planning is a systematic…
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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…
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To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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Supporting strategic planning and the execution of its strategic initiatives is the gold star of how process teams provide high-profile, intrinsic value to their…