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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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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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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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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YOKE Industrial faced a number of challenges that served as the impetus for a digital transformation effort including a labor shortage, the need for better knowledge…
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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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This case study explores how one organization built a top-down and bottom-up improvement process that uses meta data and integrated systems to automate the submission and…
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Fixing Knowledge and Process Productivity Problems Survey Questions
In 2021, APQC conducted a large-scale research study on the productivity of knowledge workers. The project was designed to gauge how workers think about personal and team…
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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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Assessing Process Management Improvement Tools Activity Sheet
The following tool is a useful way to stimulate conversation about process management both within and between organizational groups. Using this tool, process management…
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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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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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APQC interviewed Peter Becker, program manager of client services support, about Pitney Bowes’ journey to consolidate its CRM platform instances across the organization.
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Lean Technique: A3 Problem Solving Template
A-3 is a step-by-step template for applying plan-do-check-act, also known as PDCA or the Deming cycle. The name comes from the standard international paper size A-3, which is…
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Process Mining 101: Bridging Data and Process for Real-World Insights
Process mining is a process analysis method that, in many ways, turns traditional business process management (BPM) on its head. Instead of analyzing processes with sticky…