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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 7,000 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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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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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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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Strategic alignment is the first of APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠. Learn how to…
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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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In a 2019 APQC webinar, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland digs into the results of the 2019 Process and Performance Priorities and Challenges survey, as well as best practices to help you…
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Process management teams are feeling pressure to “adapt or die.” In a recent APQC survey, 88 percent of respondents said that process management teams have to change their…
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Identifying the right functions is only part of the solution to helping organizations collaborate to focus on operational goals. Organizations also need to ensure an…
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Organizations agree that some functions need to integrate—either through coordination and collaboration, or through consolidating teams into a single function—to help the…
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Why Integrate for Operational Excellence?
Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. This requires organizations to…
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Operational excellence can be defined as the ability to meet—or ideally exceed—the targets and metrics set by senior management every year. However in many organizations…
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A top performer in APQC’s Integrated Function for Operational Excellence study, Park Place Dealerships has: standardized its processes across dealerships, tied operational…
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Addressing Common Frameworks Challenges
Process frameworks can provide many benefits—help to standardize language, secure process improvement buy-in, save time, and reduced redundancies. However, like any other…
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Benchmarking for Strategic Planning
In September 2016, APQC conducted its biannual survey of more than 300 respondents across industries, functions, and regions to dig deeper and find out what value is gained…
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Creating Measurable Value
In September 2016, APQC conducted its biannual survey of more than 300 respondents across industries, functions, and regions to dig deeper and find out what value is gained…
