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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Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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How Do We Do _____? Who Knows?
In 2016, Converse County School District was rudderless. It was facing new leadership and lacked standardized and documented processes. In order to embark on a path of…
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2010 - 2020: A Performance Management Odyssey
Jennifer Martin-Johnson, Performance Management Specialist at Prince Georges Public Schools, was tasked with developing and implementing a comprehensive Performance…
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Supporting Institutional Change Through Employee Engagement and Process Improvement
Developing a culture of business process management in an organization practically unchanged for 40 years is no easy task. Organizations may have some processes documented,…
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Giving Counselors and Support Staff Some Love
In this session, Adeeb Barqawi discussed how a large school district ensured that its support staff spent less time on paperwork and more time on what is most important,…
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After Converse County School District 1’s long-serving superintendent retired, it became clear that the organization lacked standardized and documented processes. As part of…
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In 2009, Prince George’s Public Schools needed to develop a comprehensive performance management system. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit – Educators’ Edition,…
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Developing a process thinking culture in an organization is never easy, but it can be especially challenging in educational institutions. Schools and universities face…
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Too often, counselors, social workers, and other support staff are burdened with excessive paperwork and administrivia that prevents them from focusing on what really matters…
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Developing good benchmarking partnerships is crucial to continued improvement. This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…
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In-Person Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may decide to visit that organization in person…
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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may set up a virtual visit to the organization. Often…
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Benchmarking Site Visit Checklist
If your benchmarking team decides to conduct in-depth research at another organization, it can use this checklist to ensure that it properly prepares for the visit, has what…