Resource Library
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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Supplier risk is one of the biggest risk vectors organizations face today. Suppliers can expose a company to risk not only by failing to deliver materials or products on time…
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Given the reality of cybercrime and the threats that it poses to all organizations, cybersecurity has become an extremely important part of supplier risk management and…
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Tools and Templates for Lessons Learned
APQC has studied approaches for capturing and transferring lessons learned for many years. Some approaches rely on facilitated workshops that bring together participants in a…
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For any organization, launching a knowledge management (KM) or process program is a big endeavor with lots of tough decisions to make. Fortunately, organizations don’t need…
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Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
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Business process management delivers real benefit to organizations. See several examples of definitive gains from best-practice organizations identified by APQC here.
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Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
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On an APQC webinar, APQC Senior Advisor Darcy Lemons facilitated a panel on communities featuring leaders from KM programs recognized by APQC’s Excellence in Knowledge…
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In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…
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The nature of finance work is rapidly changing. As automation and other advanced technologies reduce the need for humans to complete some finance tasks, other factors—such as…
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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar with KM leaders from Toyota Motors North America, Ruckus Networks, and Schlumberger to find out how they have overcome cultural hurdles…
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Knowledge management (KM) has a natural affinity with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, STEM workers themselves may not know what KM is,…
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This executive summary outlines five best practices to embed knowledge and KM activities in the natural flow of employees' work. The recommendations focus on targeting the…
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Embed KM Support Roles in the Business
In this article, you’ll learn how best-practice organizations structure embedded KM roles and how they leverage them to provide high-touch support and on-the-ground feedback…
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Every KM program involves some activities that require employees to go above and beyond. The best way to motivate employees to take on these responsibilities and execute them…