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According to APQC's Knowledge Management Priorities and Trends survey, change management remains the top priority skill for KM to develop. This sustained focus has helped…
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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real life examples from APQC research,…
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How Best-in-Class HR Functions Manage Change
Drawing from APQC’s Current State of the HR Function Survey, this article reviews the change management strategies and approaches of best-in-class HR functions. It includes…
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Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Managing Change for Digital Work
APQC has surveyed and interviewed hundreds of organizations about their digital transformation initiatives over the past two years, and we consistently find that change…
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Digital transformation is hard. The good news is that most organizations already have the skills to address digital challenges: They just need to rally and focus the right…
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The term project isn’t an accurate description for digital transformation—or at least, it shouldn’t be. True digital transformation is not a one-and-done acquisition of…
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In a December 2019 webinar sponsored by Esker Inc. and drawing on cross-functional APQC research, Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at…
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Change Management Practices for Establishing a Data-driven Culture (Best Practices Report)
Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations. There are many pre-requisites to an organization’s becoming data driven, but perhaps none is…
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Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations, and with good reason. According to a 2014 Economist Intelligence Unit survey of 362 global…
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What Sets Process Leaders Apart?
In a keynote panel discussion at APQC’s Process and Performance Management Conference, Jeff Varney, John Tesmer, Carla Zilka, and Paul Fjelsta discussed some of the most…
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How to Get the Best Out of People
To get the best of people, organizations need to reinvent talent strategies and approaches. During her presentation at APQC’s Process and Performance Management Conference,…
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Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…