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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What are End-To-End Processes and How Do Organizations Use Them?
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They address large-scale…
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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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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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How to Leverage APQC's KM Maturity Assessment
In this webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek provide an overview of APQC's Knowledge Management Capability Assessment Tool and the process for getting started…
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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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Driving Benchmarking Forward
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look toward the future…
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What to Expect in Process and Performance Management in 2023
At the close of 2022, APQC's process and performance management group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in 2023…
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Why and How We Benchmark
Benchmarking provides context for decision making and managing performance. Benchmarking helps organizations compare the performance of their products or processes for an…
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Pushing the Boundaries of Benchmarking
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools cannot stand still and need to look towards the future on how it will…
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Partners for Performance: Benchmarking and Process Mining
Benchmarking and process mining are two key tools organizations can use to understand and improve performance. Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a…
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Boundless Benchmarking: Revolutionizing Business Models With Open Standards
Benchmarking continues its reign as one of the most popular and effective management tools used. Even great management tools cannot stand still and must evolve if they are to…
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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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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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This infographic compares trends in organizational agility, strategic planning and implementation practices between the 2021 results of the study and the 2015 results.
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Driving Decisions: What Goes Into Strategic Planning
This infographic looks at trends around the inputs and analysis for the strategic planning process.