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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 8,200 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Auditing the Smart Way: Combining Certification Standards with Process Frameworks
Organizations need a process framework for benchmarking, managing processes, and improving performance. Additionally, organizations need ways to align their process…
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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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2025 Process & Performance Management Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
In December of 2024, APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2025.This report…
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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain in-depth information, a benchmarking team may conduct a comprehensive virtual meeting, or series of meetings, with an organization that possesses best practices or…
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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…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
To draw accurate conclusions from your benchmarking data, you typically must “normalize” the data. This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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When an organization decides that it needs to benchmark with other organizations, leaders of the benchmarking effort are usually excited to see what high-performing…
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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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Scoping a Benchmarking Study
To unearth best practices, leading organizations have often turned to benchmarking. In order to see a benchmarking project through to its completion, an accurately defined…
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Managing AI: KM and Emerging Technologies
The ongoing focus on emerging technology remains crucial for enhancing and expediting knowledge management (KM) capabilities within organizations. During the July 2024…
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IT Information Governance Practices Report: Cross Industry
APQC regularly conducts survey research to help organizations evaluate their IT functions, practices, and performance compared to peers in various industries. This survey…
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How to Secure Process Champions
Stakeholder engagement, from both executives and front-line workers, is essential for any process management program to be successful. There are many ways your stakeholders…
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Balanced Scorecard: Common Measures
Balanced scorecard (BSC) is a management practice that aligns measures from an organization's strategic goals to specific process measures. BSC complements financial data …
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Benchmarking Code of Conduct
This internationally accepted benchmarking code of conduct provides detailed guidelines for organizations in conducting their benchmarking activities. Adherence to APQC's…
