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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How to Apply Process Frameworks
This collection provides "how to" guidance and best practices for the top applications of process frameworks, including APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF)®.
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Process frameworks like APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® can be used for an array of applications, ranging from understanding an organization’s current state …
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Process maturity and process management maturity are sometimes used interchangeably; however, they are two very different things. This infographic briefly highlights the…
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APQC's Process Maturity Model
Process audits help organizations to evaluate the health of a specific process or process group. Most often, they are used to determine critical gaps in understanding,…
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Building Blocks of Success: Seven Tenets of Process Management Maturity Model
APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management in Depth
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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Applying End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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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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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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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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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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This collection brings together summaries of APQC’s major process and performance management research projects from the past five years. All the summaries are open to the…
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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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Exploring Process Automation
APQC recently conducted a survey to understand more around organizations’ process automation efforts and identify how they can overcome some of the above challenges. This…