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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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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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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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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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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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Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. The 2023 Process and…
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2023 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2023. This report explores trends…
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Drawing from APQC’s case study research as well as interviews with professionals who are responsible for shaping culture in their organizations, this article discusses the…
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Where Culture Goes Wrong
This article reviews some of the common ways in which culture goes wrong in organizations. The scenarios speak to the importance of practices like change management, soft…
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The Role of PPM Professionals in Culture
While there may be good reasons to believe that culture work should be left to HR and executives, it simply isn’t true. HR and executives might play a larger role in driving…
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Process management works best when the tools and mindset needed to enable it are embedded across the enterprise. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit, Christa Bol,…