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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Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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Performing a Financial Evaluation of New Products
Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this infographic discusses the measure “cycle time in days to perform a financial evaluation of…
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Seven Tenets of Process Management
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 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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Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Database, this infographic discusses the cycle time to perform the annual close and shares advice to help…
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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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10 Steps to Design and Launch a Great Survey
Surveys are a great tool for research and benchmarking projects—they’re fast, cost-effective, and provide great insights into big populations. But you need to think carefully…
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From Reactive to Proactive: Surviving the Pandemic
While there are still many uncertainties around COVID-19, ranging from its economic impact to the potential for a second wave, organizations are pivoting to building…
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What's Ahead for Process and Performance Management in 2020
At the close of 2019, APQC's process and performance management (PPM) group conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of practitioners in…