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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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How to Use a Strategic Alignment Matrix
Strategic planning is a complex activity that requires the coordination of numerous critical elements. Laying out the relationship of elements can reveal weaknesses, clarify…
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How To Use The Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Template
With highly technical processes, systems and technologies have multiple failure modes. How can it fail? What can go wrong with it? Have you ever looked at that systems view…
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After more than a year of whirlwind change, it’s clear that organizations need to adapt faster and more often than ever before. Knowledge management (KM) and process…
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Given the numerous challenges that can occur along the supply chain, from congested ports and piracy to counterfeits and retail theft, the need for organizations to track…
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Guide to Strategic Planning Methodologies
When it comes to strategic planning, there are many well-tested models and methodologies organizations can use as a rubric for strategic planning. This document provides an…
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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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Drawing from APQC’s case study research as well as interviews with professionals who are responsible for shaping culture in their organizations, this article discusses the…
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Where Culture Goes Wrong
This article reviews some of the common ways in which culture goes wrong in organizations. The scenarios speak to the importance of practices like change management, soft…
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The Role of PPM Professionals in Culture
While there may be good reasons to believe that culture work should be left to HR and executives, it simply isn’t true. HR and executives might play a larger role in driving…
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This article is a comparison of the importance, capabilities, and practices in strategic planning and organizational agility between the 2015 study and 2021 study.
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Measures of Organizational Agility
Organizational agility is comprised of two key components: strategic responsiveness and organizational flexibility. This article identifies the key factors within each…
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Governance Structures and Alignment
In April 2021, APQC hosted a roundtable discussion with process and performance management professionals to share pain points, challenges, and success stories around process…
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Picking the Right Measures
Best-practice organizations know that choosing the right measures are critical step in generating meaningful insights and reports. A well-balanced set of measures provide…
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Measures are used to gauge operational performance, allocate resources, and identify opportunities for improvement. Measures allow organizations to track performance over…
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Balanced Scorecards: Common Measures
Creating a balanced scorecard for your organization? This list of common balanced scorecard measures is a great place to start in determining the measures needed for your…