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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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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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2023 Managing Process Knowledge Survey Report
In early 2023, APQC conducted research to explore how process and knowledge management can be aligned to improve process performance, reduce risks, and increase employee…
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2021 saw $5.1 trillion in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and that number was expected to rise in 2022. However, organizations continued to struggle with fully reaping the…
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Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) are one strategic path to inorganic, organizational growth. M&A can be relied on for a wide variety of growth opportunities from product/supply…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Survey Report
Most merger & acquisition (M&A) deals tend to fall apart in the integration phase. Whether it’s underestimating the costs of integrations, setting unrealistic timelines,…
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Every leader knows that culture determines the success or failure of an organization. At APQC’s 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, José Castro, Head of…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a hot topic in today’s financial news, but M&A is a tricky growth strategy with a high failure rate. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge…
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Empowered Employees Improve Productivity
Most organizations are riddled with inefficiencies that can and should be fixed. But leaders often struggle to see these productivity drains, much less fix them, because they…
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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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No manager likes to see their team wasting time on activities that don’t add value to the business. Many fear that virtual work offers too much freedom and that employees…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Survey Report
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Six Core Capabilities for Resilence: Q&A
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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Collins Aerospace, one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products, has leveraged process management for over 20 years. However, the organization…
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Although Collins Aerospace, has used process management for over 20 years, it needed to improve the adoption, ease of use, and scalability of its process management efforts…