Resource Library
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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Beyond Kaizen: Olympus' Inspiring Case Study on Driving Operational Excellence
In this webinar, GBTEC shares a captivating case study on the reinvention of Operational Excellence, where Stromberg and Geising-Eggers share transformative strategies that…
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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2024
APQC's process and performance management research team conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2024. The survey…
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What are End-To-End Processes and How Do Organizations Use Them?
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They address large-scale…
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Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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How to Create End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end understanding of work processes is critical for almost any aspect of managing business operations. In mapping out processes, organizations need to both…
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Seven Tenets of Process Management
Process management can revolutionize the way an organization does business and generates value. APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠ provide a clear framework any…
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Top 5 Benchmarking Challenges and Tips to Address Them
Benchmarking is an invaluable tool for organizations improving how they conduct business—it provides context on performance and helps pinpoint new practices. Throughout the…
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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2023
At the close of 2022, APQC's process and performance management group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2023…
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Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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Operational Excellence in an Era of Disruption - Responding to Uncertainty with Agility
Clinical development processes at AstraZeneca govern how they work to bring new medicines to patients as rapidly as possible. After dealing with thousands of long, complex,…
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Defining Organizational Agility
APQC conducted a survey in March of 2021 to explore strategic planning practices and identify the key characteristics that drive organizational agility. This infographic…
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Curating a Process Mindset in Tech Finance
Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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How to Use RPA & AI to Hyper-automate Your Processes: Drive Productivity Up and Costs Down
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Transformation from Within: Our OpEx Journey
Capital Group ranks among the world's oldest and largest investment management organizations. Over the last five years, it evolved its transformation practices from a single…
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Redesign Your Process Audits: Link with Strategy and Improve your Maturity
Process audits are a norm in most industries and geographies; they are done for an array of reasons including, statutory requirements and internally for management assurance…