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 Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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4 Ways to Stop Ineffective Meetings
This infographic reviews four ways to stop ineffective meetings, one of the biggest time wasters APQC found in a recent research project on knowledge and process productivity…
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Infographics|
Stop Wasting 10% of Knowledge Workers' Time
This infographic reviews four key actions that organizations can take to fix findability problems. Knowledge workers whose organizations have taken these steps are…
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Productivity is a Well-Balanced Meal
APQC conducted a survey to explore the current state of productivity from the perspective of full-time knowledge workers. This infographic looks at the definition of and…
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Knowledge workers’ face broken, ad hoc, and inefficient processes which result in wasted time, creativity, job satisfaction, and poor quality. APQC surveyed knowledge workers…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Survey Report
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Infographics|
Do's and Don'ts of a Process Improvement Culture
This infographic looks at trends in organizations' process improvement efforts and pinpoints improvement opportunities to increase the efficacy of their efforts.
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Infographics|
Cloud Computing & The Finance Function
Cloud computing allows users to access and use shared data and computing services via the Internet or a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Using the cloud means storing and…
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Cognitive Computing & The Finance Function
Cognitive computing offers significant promise for finance functions seeking additional ways to deliver value and insights. Cognitive computing refers to self-learning…
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Presentation Slides|
Simplify Process Management to Amplify Success
Although Collins Aerospace, has used process management for over 20 years, it needed to improve the adoption, ease of use, and scalability of its process management efforts…
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Curating a Process Mindset in Tech Finance
Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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How to Use RPA & AI to Hyper-automate Your Processes: Drive Productivity Up and Costs Down
Businesses of today want to leverage automation, whether in its most minimal form or in its entirety. Robotic process automation (RPA) is that quiet murmur that has now…
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Process Toolkit to Challenge the As-Is
In order to engage the business and apply process practices that make a difference, we often must challenge the way people think about the way they execute work. To…