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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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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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Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Managing Change for Digital Work
APQC has surveyed and interviewed hundreds of organizations about their digital transformation initiatives over the past two years, and we consistently find that change…
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Digital transformation is hard. The good news is that most organizations already have the skills to address digital challenges: They just need to rally and focus the right…
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The term project isn’t an accurate description for digital transformation—or at least, it shouldn’t be. True digital transformation is not a one-and-done acquisition of…
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Preparing to shift toward a data-driven culture—a change that has as much to do with people as it does with data—is, accordingly, largely a people-centric activity. This is…
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Rolling out Analytics Capabilities
In previous research on change management, Transformational Change—Making It Last, APQC found that the key components of managing or rolling out any change, especially one…
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There’s an old business adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Best-practice organizations keep the emphasis on change objectives through targeted measures of…
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Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations, and with good reason. According to a 2014 Economist Intelligence Unit survey of 362 global…
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Change Management Practices for Establishing a Data-driven Culture (Best Practices Report)
Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations. There are many pre-requisites to an organization’s becoming data driven, but perhaps none is…
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Strike Team: A Case Study in Conscious Leadership
Government entities are known to be hierarchical, conservative, and characterized by silos. As such, it’s hard for government organizations to change. At APQC’s 2019 Process …
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Building Momentum Together: Our Journey of Continuous Improvement
Several years ago, Boone County Schools applied process and performance management principles to its operations department to generate over a million dollars in savings. Now,…
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Shifting Organizational Climate, Culture and Expectations
When Dr. Todd Cramer started as its superintendent, the Maumee City School district had many areas that needed improvement. During APQC’s 2019 Process and Performance…