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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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Total Number of ERPs or ERP Instances throughout the Entire Finance Shared Services Organization
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are an important part of the shared services environment that helps organizations to standardize their processes and data. After…
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Designing Effective Risk Management Training
Effective training is critical for building a mature risk management culture. Employees across an enterprise not only need to learn how risk intersects with their daily work,…
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Busy but not productive: it is the feeling that everyone dreads. At APQC's 2022 PPM and KM Conference, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Cindy Hubert led a general session on…
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Digitization is critical for building a future-ready finance function. In the context of a shared service center (SSC), digitization enables an organization to pay suppliers,…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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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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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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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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Six Keys to Organizational Resiliency
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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COVID-19 Organizational Survival Guide
Along with the rising humanitarian toll, COVID-19 and its myriad impacts are undeniably going to shape businesses and economies around the world for years and even decades to…
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Business Financial Contingency Planning
Financial contingency planning is an important tool in the finance function toolkit to help organizations prepare in the event of market disruptions. This article gleans…
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Self-Assessing Your Cybersecurity Risks
Worried about whether your data is at risk for a cyber-attack or data breach? The finance function can and should play a critical role in safeguarding an organization’s…
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Service level agreements (SLA) play a critical role in governing the relationship between the customer and supplier of a service and can be leveraged any time that…
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Live Future Ready with Scenario Planning
In an uncertain and unpredictable world, disruptions to business as usual—whether good or bad—can come at any time. While no organization or finance professional can predict…