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Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Automotive Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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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 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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2024 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges: Services Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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2024 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges: Process Management Function
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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Getting the Most Out of Performance Measurement
Performance measurement can present tricky challenges for management, especially when dealing with cultural resistance. This collection of articles explains how to implement…
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Fundamentals of Measures
One of the reasons organizations grapple with effective data & analytics is their lack of a solid measurement foundation. Particularly around identifying the relevant, …
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Quality Measurement
Organizations must maintain a high level of quality in both customer-facing and internal processes. Measurement is key to increasing performance, but quality is an elusive…
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Measuring Customer Service
In 2023, APQC conducted research, sponsored by Esker Inc., that took a detailed look at the top KPIs organizations employ to measure customer service and order management…
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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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APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Cross-Industry and Industry-Specific Versions
This collection contains links to all the most recent versions of APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF), including the cross-industry framework, all industry-specific…
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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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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…
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Dive into Data Visualization
APQC conducted a short poll to understand insight on organizations’ applications, management, and challenges regarding data visualization tools. Data visualization tools…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Measures of Quality
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…