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How to Secure Process Champions
Stakeholder engagement, from both executives and front-line workers, is essential for any process management program to be successful. There are many ways your stakeholders…
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Process management activities like documentation, standardization, and digitization all help organizations to optimize their processes and enable continuous improvement. But…
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Beyond Kaizen: Olympus' Inspiring Case Study on Driving Operational Excellence
In this webinar, GBTEC shares a captivating case study on the reinvention of Operational Excellence, where Stromberg and Geising-Eggers share transformative strategies that…
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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2024
APQC's process and performance management research team conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2024. The survey…
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End-to-End Process Benefits and Challenges
An end-to-end (E2E) process refers to a cross-functional process that comprises all the steps necessary to accomplish a specific business goal. Creating and mapping an E2E…
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While E2E processes carry many benefits, the work of creating, defining, and managing these processes is a challenge for many organizations—especially given their numerous,…
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Electric utilities have industry-wide reliability standards to measure the duration and frequency of power outages. But how were these standards established? It wasn’t a…
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Knowledge Management and Process Management: A Winning Combination for Continuous Improvement
By effectively harmonizing process and performance management (PPM) with a strong knowledge management (KM) program, organizations can realize unexpected synergy and…
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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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Each year, APQC carries out a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners. The 2023 Process and…
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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2023
At the close of 2022, APQC's process and performance management group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2023…
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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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Technology Implementation Success Starts With Your Process Team
APQC’s Principal Research Lead, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, discusses how process teams support technology implementation and why 3 key stakeholders need to work together and the…
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Organizations invest significant resources like time, money, and FTE hours into selecting and implementing new technologies. But without a systematic approach to implement…
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What are Process Strategic Initiatives?
APQC’s Principal Research Lead, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland discusses what process strategic initiatives mean and what’s processes roll in them. Strategic planning is a systematic…