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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Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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Robotic Process Automation: The Gateway to Process Improvement
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco took a grassroots approach in building its robotic process automation (RPA) Center of Excellence, starting slowly with ad-hoc get…
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Emotional Connection and Influencing Change
Building on Bill Benjamin's framework of the Science of Emotional Intelligence, this presentation explores powerful new concepts, applications, and strategies that improves…
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A New Foundation: Rebuilding the Knowledge Base at Elevations Credit Union
Elevations Credit Union is a two-time Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, and knowledge management has played a crucial role in its improvement journey. This…
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Open Innovation: Realizing the Value of Ecosystem Collaboration
As organizations are transitioning to increasingly open business models, open innovation has become an essential driver of growth. IBM and APQC have been researching open…
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As organizations seek to thrive through chaos and change, emotional intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand skillsets. Emotional intelligence is the…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a hot topic in today’s financial news, but M&A is a tricky growth strategy with a high failure rate. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge…
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Business stakeholders often underestimate the amount of time, labor, and other resources that it takes to implement robotic process automation (RPA) effectively. At APQC's…
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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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The State of Automation in Banking
In response to the tumult and increased regulation resulting from the 2008 global recession, the banking and financial services industry became the early adopters of robotic…
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In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…
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Investment management company Capital Group has transformed its process improvement capability from a singular continuous improvement effort to a holistic operational…
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Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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Process Toolkit to Challenge the As-Is
In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…
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Transformation from Within: Our OpEx Journey
Capital Group ranks among the world's oldest and largest investment management organizations. Over the last five years, it evolved its transformation practices from a single…