Resource Library
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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Design Thinking for Knowledge Management
Design thinking can assist knowledge management professionals in comprehending the requirements of their internal customers (i.e., end-users) and devising innovative…
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Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition)
The realm of planning and management accounting is a top priority. CFOs want to speed up workflows, control process costs, leverage talent, improve the precision of forecasts…
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To withstand today’s supply chain challenges and flourish in the face of future disruptions, supply chain organizations and their teams need to make fundamental changes to…
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APQC’s research—conducted in partnership with supplier relationship management (SRM) experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy—shows that although there are…
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Reinventing Supplier Relationship Management
APQC’s research—conducted in partnership with supplier relationship management (SRM) experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy—shows that although there are…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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This article weaves together insights from research conducted by APQC, APQC research advisor Kate Vitasek, author Daniel Coyle, and IBM to provide actionable advice on ways…
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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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Understanding Process Knowledge
Process management and knowledge management are separate but related fields that aim to improve organizational efficiency. Organizations are increasingly recognizing the…
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Few terms are more popular and confusing than "Sustainability." Everyone is using it, but what does it mean? In this article, APQC provides a holistic definition plus…
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Process Management Paradigm Shift
Competencies in Lean, Six Sigma, or business process management are no longer enough for process teams to support their organizations’ needs. Accelerated changes in the…
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Introduction to Customer Journey Mapping
Leading organizations use customer journey mapping to turn customer data into actionable insights. In this article, you will learn about the key features and benefits of…
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Process automation has nearly limitless potential as a means of improving efficiency, reducing errors, and saving time and money. However, most organizations have neither the…
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Couple the expanded potential with the growing accessibility and maturity of RPA technologies, and RPA is quickly becoming a staple of the process management toolbox. APQC…
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In this session, Merck's Grace Chen and Melanie Adams present a case study outlining how traditional and new KM approaches helped preserve expertise in the face of a pause…