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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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The Expanding Role of Process Teams
Amid all the crises, over the last couple of years organizations have a higher-level of understanding of the value these disciplines provide. Consequently, process teams were…
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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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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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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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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may set up a virtual visit to the organization. Often…
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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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Developing good benchmarking partnerships is crucial to continued improvement. This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…
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(1 - 5 of 226 Results)Actual Open-to-buy retail inventory as a percentage of planned retail inventory
Retail customer lifetime value
Number of business entity employees per FTE that performs the process group "develop and counsel employees"
Number of business entity employees per FTE in learning administration
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
