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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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The Future of Benchmarking
As markets and industries grow more interconnected, benchmarking is expanding in both importance and scope. This article explores six areas where benchmarking is expected to…
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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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Barriers to Better Benchmarking
Benchmarking plays an important role in organizational decision making and transformation. Its foundational elements revolve around establishing measures, developing a…
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Why Apply Process Mining?
Process mining offers an array of benefits. It uses event logs and data visualization to create an objective view of the current state process, including potential…
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Benchmarking with a Purpose
Benchmarking plays an important role in organizational decision making and transformation. Its foundational elements revolve around setting organizations up for performance…
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Benchmarking continues its reign as one of the most popular and effective management tools used by organizations around the world. However, even the best management tools…
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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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Organizations invest significant resources like time, money, and FTE hours into selecting and implementing new technologies. But without a systematic approach to implement…
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As an organization grows over years, processes diverge. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, AstraZeneca’s Business Process Manager Christopher Moriak…
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To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
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Supporting strategic planning and the execution of its strategic initiatives is the gold star of how process teams provide high-profile, intrinsic value to their…
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Guide to Strategic Planning Methodologies
When it comes to strategic planning, there are many well-tested models and methodologies organizations can use as a rubric for strategic planning. This document provides an…
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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…