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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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Now in the Resource Library: Process and Performance Management
This report provides an overview of recently released content in APQC's Resource Library, and upcoming research. Topics include business process management, benchmarking,…
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Tools & Templates|
Benchmarking Scope Document Template
This scoping template can be used as organizations scope a project and record their plan for benchmarking. It complements APQC's article Scoping a Benchmarking Study.The …
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Benchmarking: Quick Reference Guide
This guide provides a brief overview of APQC’s benchmarking methodology, tools, resources, and templates.
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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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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This is an APQC guide with models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides that organizations can use in their benchmarking and process improvement efforts. These include…
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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…