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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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To fully engage their audience, knowledge management teams need be creative about when, where, and how they provide training. If training happens in the wrong context or the…
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Most employees need encouragement and guidance to feel comfortable submitting or sharing their knowledge. However, some overeager contributors flood KM systems with content…
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Few individuals can influence the success or failure of knowledge management (KM) as much as knowledge leaders such as subject matter experts, mentors, or community of…
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Executives can motivate large numbers of employees to get on board with KM by promoting its value and role-modeling knowledge-sharing behaviors. However, these leaders are…
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Reinforce and Refresh KM Training as Needed
If employees don’t have (or don’t think they have) an immediate need to use KM, they may forget how and why to do so. Even employees with good KM habits need refreshers,…
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The Business Case for Engaging Employees
This article presents data and information that help build a business case for investments in employee engagement, explaining what engagement is, why employers should care…
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Drawing from the results of APQC’s 2019 Engagement and the Employee Experience survey, this article gives an overview of the practices, approaches, and methods that leading…
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In a December 2019 webinar sponsored by Esker Inc. and drawing on cross-functional APQC research, Marisa Brown (Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at…
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Succession Planning—Program Essentials
This article presents nine essential actions that an organization can take to develop an effective approach to succession planning. Best-practice organizations carry out…
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What It Takes To Improve Employee Engagement
30% of employees in the United States, and 16% of employees globally, are engaged at work. For many employers, employee engagement programs are failing to meet objectives…
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This article’s magic number is 10: Specifically, the 10 skills deemed most important by participants in APQC’s Future Skillsets of Procurement Professionals research. The…
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Building a KM Partnership with HR
Under the umbrella of HR, the learning and development organization is the most obvious target for knowledge management (KM) partnership. However, KM may also need to partner…
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This article summarizes an APQC webinar where guest speaker, Amy P. Youngblood, a retired global finance director of a Fortune 100 company, discussed creating a continuously…
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Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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How to Get the Best Out of People
To get the best of people, organizations need to reinvent talent strategies and approaches. During her presentation at APQC’s Process and Performance Management Conference,…
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