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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain in-depth information, a benchmarking team may conduct a comprehensive virtual meeting, or series of meetings, with an organization that possesses best practices or…
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Benchmarking Site Visit Checklist
If your benchmarking team decides to conduct in-depth research at another organization, it can use this checklist to ensure that it properly prepares for the visit, has what…
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When an organization decides that it needs to benchmark with other organizations, leaders of the benchmarking effort are usually excited to see what high-performing…
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In-Person Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may decide to visit that organization in person…
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Scoping a Benchmarking Study
To unearth best practices, leading organizations have often turned to benchmarking. In order to see a benchmarking project through to its completion, an accurately defined…
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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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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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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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Process management works best when the tools and mindset needed to enable it are embedded across the enterprise. As part of APQC’s 2020 PPM Online Summit, Christa Bol,…
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For Alvaro Caamaño (Business Process Architect, Intel), setting up a business process management (BPM) framework is like building a house: Without the right foundations and a…
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This article outlines the roles of team members and other individuals involved in a typical benchmarking project. It defines the responsibilities associated with each role…
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Conducting research directly with individuals and organizations can be challenging. Interviews can get off track, surveys can yield inaccurate responses, and site visits can…
Measure Spotlight Results
(1 - 5 of 239 Results)Personnel cost to perform the processes "manage employee development" and "develop and train employees" as a percentage of total process cost
Personnel cost to perform the processes "manage employee orientation and deployment," "manage employee performance," and "manage employee relations" as a percentage of total process cost
Number of learning days per employee
Response time in hours for non-routine "develop and counsel employees" inquiries
Response time in hours for routine "develop and counsel employees" inquiries
