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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Harnessing Tacit Knowledge as a Superpower
In this session, the Manufacturing Division (MMD) of Merck & Co., Inc. focuses on identifying, capturing, transferring, and sharing tacit knowledge. The organization's…
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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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Supply Chain Planning Practices: Cross-Industry
APQC conducts ongoing research on supply chain planning designed to help organizations assess the structure and performance of their own supply chain planning function…
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10 Steps to Get a KM Program Off the Ground
Speed to results is critical for any fledgling knowledge management program. The faster KM can switch from planning to execution and start delivering value to the business,…
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An Interactive Conversation with 2020 Excellence in KM Recipients
In this two-hour web event, APQC’s Cindy Hubert, Darcy Lemons, and Lauren Trees facilitated three interactive conversations with leaders from high-achieving KM teams…
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Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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What Makes MITRE Excellent at KM?
MITRE earned APQC’s 2020 Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in honor of achieving Level 5 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at the enterprise level. This infographic…
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What Makes Arup Excellent at KM?
Ove Arup & Partners (Arup) earned APQC’s 2020 Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in honor of achieving Level 5 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at the Enterprise…
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What Makes SNC-Lavalin Excellent at KM?
SNC-Lavalin earned APQC’s 2020 Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in honor of achieving Level 4 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at the Enterprise level. This…
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Using Knowledge-Sensitive Measures to Evaluate KM's Impact in STEM Disciplines
This white paper explains how STEM fields track knowledge acquisition and application and how knowledge management (KM) programs can align with this measurement approach to…
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The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) earned APQC’s 2019 Excellence in KM Award in honor of achieving Level 5 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at…
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How to Build KM into Daily Work: Make KM Intuitive, Embedded, and Easy
This whitepaper outlines five best practices to embed knowledge and KM activities in the natural flow of employees' work. The recommendations focus on targeting the right…
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division (SWD) earned APQC’s 2019 Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in honor of achieving Level 3 on APQC’s KM…
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Tips to Motivate Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
Every organization has its own combination of policies and incentives to convince employees to build knowledge sharing and reuse into the way they work. In this presentation,…