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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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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2023 Managing Process Knowledge Survey Report
In early 2023, APQC conducted research to explore how process and knowledge management can be aligned to improve process performance, reduce risks, and increase employee…
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are pricey endeavors that can result in enormous benefits. However, organizations struggle with ensuring the integration of the two…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Integrations
Since early 2021 mergers & acquisition deals have been on the rise. 2021 saw $5.1 trillion in M&A transactions. Though the price of these deals is also on the rise, the…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Survey Report
Most merger & acquisition (M&A) deals tend to fall apart in the integration phase. Whether it’s underestimating the costs of integrations, setting unrealistic timelines,…
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How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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4 Ways to Stop Ineffective Meetings
This infographic reviews four ways to stop ineffective meetings, one of the biggest time wasters APQC found in a recent research project on knowledge and process productivity…
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Stop Wasting 10% of Knowledge Workers' Time
This infographic reviews four key actions that organizations can take to fix findability problems. Knowledge workers whose organizations have taken these steps are…
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Productivity is a Well-Balanced Meal
APQC conducted a survey to explore the current state of productivity from the perspective of full-time knowledge workers. This infographic looks at the definition of and…
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In 2021, APQC interviewed Atmos Energy Corporation's Bronson Blodgett, Director of Business Processes and Change Management, to learn: Why Atmos Energy combines…
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Knowledge workers’ face broken, ad hoc, and inefficient processes which result in wasted time, creativity, job satisfaction, and poor quality. APQC surveyed knowledge workers…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Survey Report
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Engaging Employees in Process Work at CF Industries
Engaging employees in process work is never easy. CF Industries recognized this fact during a migration from SAP to a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool…
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To combat operational silos limiting process improvement efforts, Vanguard developed a structured approach to engage the business in value stream mapping, which allowed it to…