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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Total Cost to Acquire Talent
Two trends are putting significant pressure on the cost to acquire talent: 1) scarcity of talent with the latest, most-in-demand skills and 2) competition to provide a…
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Talent Acquisition Tune-Up Diagnostic
In a competitive talent market, successfully meeting business objectives requires talent acquisition practices that differentiate your organization from other employers. Yet,…
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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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HR Strategy and Planning Productivity
In evaluating HR process group and process performance, HR staff productivity is an essential consideration. Generally speaking, high levels of HR staff productivity can…
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HR Strategy Cost per Employee
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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HR Strategy Cost Per $1,000 Revenue
One of the first metrics that executives tend to look at when evaluating the performance of corporate functions or processes, such as HR processes, is cost. The measure Total…
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Efficiency of HR Strategy and Planning
Organizations that are efficient in HR strategy and planning deliver the human capital contributions that the business needs in ways that make the best use of HR time and…
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HR Strategy and Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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Capital projects often require significant investments of an organization’s finances, time, human capital, and other resources. When capital projects go off the rails and…
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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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Financial Evaluation of New Products
How long does it take your finance team to perform financial evaluations for new products? Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this…
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Number of Talent Acquisition Employees
Personnel costs are the largest expense in the talent acquisition process. They take up roughly two-thirds of the average talent acquisition budget (with the remainder…
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Optimizing Recruiter Workload
In the field of HR, recruiter workload is a long-standing topic of debate. In fact, determining the optimal recruiter workload is a high stakes task. The greater the volume…
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Time to Fill a Job Opening
Lengthy hiring processes have long-lasting negative effects. Employers that are slow to move candidates through the hiring process lose the best talent to competitors that…
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3 Key Steps for Addressing Turnover
An organization’s turnover rate provides key insights into the health of its workforce and its approach to human capital management more broadly. But in order to be…