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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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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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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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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Best-practice organizations focus their business process management (BPM) initiatives on areas where it will provide the most value. By channeling efforts toward customer and…
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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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Understanding Customer Profitability
Understanding customer profitability can be a complicated undertaking for any organization—especially one that has multiple lines of business. This article gleans insights…
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Demand planning is a long-term strategic approach to minimize inventory costs, anticipate shifting buying patterns, better inform suppliers, and most importantly, meet…
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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…
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Since so many organizations structure work in the form of projects, integrating knowledge sharing and reuse into an organization’s standard project management methodology is…
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Most people understand that sharing tips with colleagues and looking up solutions from past projects is a good idea. But if the process of doing so takes too long or pulls…
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Knowledge management (KM) is never one-size-fits-all. A KM team must understand organizational needs and then pick KM tools and approaches that will best serve each group of…
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Finding qualified talent is one of the biggest challenges for employers today. In this written interview, Heidi Gerhard, director of leadership, organizational capability and…
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Training and Development—Program Essentials
Organizations have many different approaches to providing training and development, but not all approaches are created equal. This article describes nine essential practices…
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(1 - 5 of 3771 Results)Percentage of total IT cost, excluding depreciation/amortization, allocated to process group "manage the business of information technology"
Personnel cost to perform the function "manage information technology", excluding depreciation/amortization, per $1,000 revenue
Total cost of IT development and maintenance, excluding depreciation/amortization, per $1,000 revenue
Total cost of IT planning and management, excluding depreciation/amortization, per $1,000 revenue
Total cost to perform the process group "develop and implement security, privacy, and data protection controls", excluding depreciation/amortization, per $1,000 revenue
