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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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Investing in effective enterprise content management processes is crucial for organizations. APQC's research on successful content management programs shows how to formulate…
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Faced with content findability challenges throughout the business, it would have been easy for Shopify to look for a shiny new tool to fix all its KM problems. Instead, the…
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Access to an organization’s collective knowledge boosts employees’ productivity and ability to innovate. But enabling knowledge access is a challenge, especially in large and…
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Sustainability in Industrial Products
Supply chain leaders are well-positioned to play a critical role in helping organizations achieve their sustainability goals, especially by virtue of their work with…
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People and culture factors can make or break a knowledge management (KM) program. With engaged employees and a supportive culture, KM thrives. Without these factors, KM…
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Too often, leaders and other stakeholders struggle to see the value of KM initiatives or feel that KM programs do not deliver as much business impact as they should. For…
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The business adage “innovate or die” may sound hyperbolic, but it also happens to be true. Organizations today face a range of challenges, whether from a global pandemic,…
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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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Data science, digital, and IT specialty skills are in high demand and short supply. In this article, you will learn about the benefits and risks of filling technical skills…
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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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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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Organizations are seeking new and better ways to drive innovation, and many are looking to knowledge management (KM) for support. This article outlines ways to connect KM and…
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Understanding HR Transformation
This brief article provides APQC's definition of HR transformation, lists common objectives for HR transformations today, and provides a case example of HR transformation at…
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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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Portable metrology provider Advanced Industrial Machine Solutions needed a more robust approach to document management. Thus, the company leveraged APQC’s Process…