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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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Top Continuous Improvement Priorities in 2024
In this video, Madison Lundquist, Principal Research Lead for APQC's process and performance management research area, dives into the priorities and challenges associated…
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Tools to Evolve BPM's Strategic Value
In our recent research on process automation, APQC found that business process management is potentially more important than ever before. Process management has many of 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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Driving Value Realization Through Post-Acquisition Integration
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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Driving Value Realization Through Post-Acquisition Integration
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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What are Operational Improvements?
APQC’s Principal Research Lead, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, discusses what operational improvements mean and what process teams’ roles are in them. There are 3 key roles for…
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Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This presentation discusses an overview of the M&A process, pre-close planning, integration planning, key points for post-acquisition integration, and multi-industry lessons…
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Operational Excellence in an Era of Disruption - Responding to Uncertainty with Agility
Clinical development processes at AstraZeneca govern how they work to bring new medicines to patients as rapidly as possible. After dealing with thousands of long, complex,…
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APQC hosted its Process and Knowledge Management Conference from May 9th-12th, 2022, in Houston. The conference theme was “Building the Roadmap Together,” which focused on…
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How to Boost Customer Experience with BPM and Design Thinking
Frameworks and methods from customer experience management (CXM), business process management (BPM), and design thinking (DT) had been utilized in several Endress+Hauser…
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Creating a Continuous Improvement and Process Driven Culture
Creating a culture is a complex challenge. CMI's Shared Service Center focused on four key elements—organization, language, technology, and methods—to develop a continuous…
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2022 Finance Management Priorities
In the fourth quarter of 2021, APQC conducted its annual survey of finance professionals to explore the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges APQC members and customers…
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Fixing Knowledge & Process Productivity Problems
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes have a bearing on an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they also impede innovation, agility,…