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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Now in the Resource Library: Process and Performance Management
This report provides an overview of recently released content in APQC's Resource Library, and upcoming research. Topics include business process management, benchmarking,…
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Tools & Templates|
Benchmarking Scope Document Template
This scoping template can be used as organizations scope a project and record their plan for benchmarking. It complements APQC's article Scoping a Benchmarking Study.The …
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2024 Top Challenges and Solutions: Project Management
Proper project management is crucial to ensuring that projects achieve success in a timely and organized fashion. Without careful management, an organization’s projects will…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management Supporting Content and Best Practices
This resource guides you towards the best approach to improving your business process management with detailed definitions and process steps for each of APQC's Seven Tenets…
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2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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Tools & Templates|
APQC's Measurement Alignment Worksheet
For measurement to provide real value, an organization must ensure that its measures align with both the strategic goals of the business and employees’ daily work. APQC's…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight (Visio)
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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End-to-End Process Map and Measures: Question-to-Insight (Excel)
There are several departments and teams in any organization focused on solving problems and providing insights to support decision making (e.g., market research, competitive…
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Tools & Templates|
How to Analyze Process Risk
Every process has inherent risks that can result in unintended consequences. Understanding the source of risks, as well as the reliability of a process, allows an…
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Template
With highly technical processes, systems and technologies have multiple failure modes. How can it fail? What can go wrong with it? Have you ever looked at that systems view…
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One thing is very clear: process management is more important than ever and its role and the people who work within it are evolving. But how do the people of process evolve…
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Common Process Management Roles
To retain market share, evolve, and adapt, organizations need a strong foundation in process management. This foundation is not built on the processes themselves—after all,…
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Challenges Faced with Adopting a Process Framework
Although the benefits of process frameworks are numerous, they are not without their challenges. Most frameworks require some modifications to account for differences in…
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Case Study|
Visualizing a Path to Success at The Poirier Group
When managing an enterprise or business process transformation, sometimes the quickest path to helping people envision what is possible and change key behaviors is to provide…