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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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Supplier risk is one of the biggest risk vectors organizations face today. Suppliers can expose a company to risk not only by failing to deliver materials or products on time…
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For any organization, launching a knowledge management (KM) or process program is a big endeavor with lots of tough decisions to make. Fortunately, organizations don’t need…
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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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Business process management delivers real benefit to organizations. See several examples of definitive gains from best-practice organizations identified by APQC here.
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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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In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…
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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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Project mentoring and training for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt candidates carries a dual benefit: Not only does it dramatically increase the rate of student success, but also…
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Aerospace and defense organization Raytheon has a long history in leading innovation. But as technology and business conditions change, Raytheon must be able to adapt to…
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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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Worker's today have many options when it comes to choosing where they work. But, employers have options too--options when it comes to engaging and retaining employees. Learn…