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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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Benchmarking Code of Conduct
This internationally accepted standard provides detailed guidelines for organizations in conducting their benchmarking activities. Adherence to APQC's code of conduct…
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Now in the Resource Library: Process and Performance Management
This report provides an overview of recently released content in APQC's Resource Library, and upcoming research. Topics include business process management, benchmarking,…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management Supporting Content and Best Practices
This resource guides you towards the best approach to improving your business process management with detailed definitions and process steps for each of APQC's Seven Tenets…
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How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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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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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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Supporting strategic planning and the execution of its strategic initiatives is the gold star of how process teams provide high-profile, intrinsic value to their…
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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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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Strategic alignment is the first of APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠. Learn how to…
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The best process people are passionate—in fact, some might even call them obsessive. When they see a bad or broken process, they dig in to learn all they can, zoom out to…
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Developing an Enterprise Perspective with HR Process Analysis and Design Specialist Sajjad Shaikh
Process work is all about the big picture. Process people know that even the smallest change in one area can have huge impact downstream, and that organizations pursuing…
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This article shares insights from Smarter Solutions CEO, Forrest Breyfogle, about how organizations can develop an integrated enterprise excellence business management system…
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FP&A in 2020: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In an APQC webinar, FP&A thought leader Brian Kalish (founder of Kalish Consulting) discussed four trends for finance and FP&A in particular for the next year based on…
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Several years ago, Boone County Schools applied process and performance management principles to its operations department to generate over a million dollars in savings. Now,…