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The energy and utility industry faces an unprecedented confluence of external forces. Market, environmental, geopolitical, regulatory, technical and technological, and socio…
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The COVID-19 pandemic was marked by wide-ranging supply chain shortages for medical equipment, ranging from PPE and gloves to respirators and other critical products. It also…
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Managing Complex Risk in Utilities
In early 2021, Winter Storm Uri caused one of the largest power blackouts ever in the United States. Whereas other regions are built to handle a seven-day hard freeze, this…
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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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In partnership with Ernie Humphrey (CEO, Treasury Webinars), APQC launched its Delivering Treasury Success in the “Next Normal” study to understand what success looks like…
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The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is the research and development arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As part of APQC’s 2020 KM Conversations…
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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar where KM leaders from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, REI Systems, and Amgen described ways to formally integrate…
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Knowledge management (KM) has a natural affinity with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, STEM workers themselves may not know what KM is,…
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This executive summary outlines five best practices to embed knowledge and KM activities in the natural flow of employees' work. The recommendations focus on targeting the…
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Applying Agile in Knowledge Management
Agile—a project management paradigm that stresses iteration, collaboration, self-organization, and customer-centricity—is taking the business world by storm. In this article,…
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At APQC’s 2019 KM Conference, Senior IT Program Manager Nathan Ahlstrom and Senior Knowledge Solutions Program Manager Mary Maida explained how Medtronic leveraged existing…
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TechnipFMC’s Recipe for KM Reinvention
Even when everything is going well and you're at the top of your KM game, you can be sure tomorrow will not look like today. Whether driven by a merger, a changing industry,…
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At APQC’s 2019 KM Conference, John Boden, vice president of information and member services for the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and Reid Smith, co-founder and CEO…
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Everyone wants engagement—but few know how to define it. This makes it a challenge to pursue, measure, prompt, and reward. According to Rachel Happe, co-founder and principal…
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For two decades, Schlumberger used custom-built software to support its world-leading communities of practice. But it recently shifted its community discussion forums (known…