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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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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Corrosion - PDF Version 1.1.1
APQC's Process Classification Framework® (PCF) is a taxonomy of business processes that allows organizations to objectively track and compare their performance internally and…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Utilities - Excel Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) – Life Sciences PCF - PDF Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
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Business process management delivers real benefit to organizations. See several examples of definitive gains from best-practice organizations identified by APQC here.
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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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Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
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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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Accelerating KM: Swagelok and U.S. Pharmacopeia Share Advice to Fast-track KM Program Development
In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar with KM leaders from Swagelok and U.S. Pharmacopeia to find out how they have accelerated KM adoption and maturity in their organizations…
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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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Embed KM Support Roles in the Business
In this article, you’ll learn how best-practice organizations structure embedded KM roles and how they leverage them to provide high-touch support and on-the-ground feedback…
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Every KM program involves some activities that require employees to go above and beyond. The best way to motivate employees to take on these responsibilities and execute them…
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Since so many organizations structure work in the form of projects, integrating knowledge sharing and reuse into an organization’s standard project management methodology is…