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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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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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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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Scoping a Benchmarking Study
In order to see a benchmarking project through to its completion, an accurately defined scope must be determined. This guidance outlines how to designate a scope that focuses…
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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…
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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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In 2017 APQC conducted its biannual PCF survey and compiled a series of case studies to understand how organizations leverage the PCF and identify how they can overcome some…
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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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Benchmarking for Mergers and Acquisitions
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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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…
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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…