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After years of nearly constant change and disruption, it’s not surprising that many employees are beginning to feel burned out by the very idea of more change. Which makes…
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Hear Their Voices: Engaging Employees in the Change
The emotional connection an employee feels toward their organization will ultimately influence their behaviors and performance at work. For employees who are comfortable with…
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Avoiding Icebergs: Leadership’s Role in Driving Change
Change means something different to different people. Some find it exhilarating, while others are intimidated, and more sit back to watch change unfold with a skeptical “wait…
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Organizations' Focus on Change Management
Change management is vital to helping transition employees, teams, and/or an entire organization to a desired future state. Effective change management helps proactively take…
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Effective Change Management Practices: Survey Report
At its core, change management is the act of proactively managing change and minimizing the resistance to organizational change through a set of structured processes or set…
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are pricey endeavors that can result in enormous benefits. However, organizations struggle with ensuring the integration of the two…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Integrations
Since early 2021 mergers & acquisition deals have been on the rise. 2021 saw $5.1 trillion in M&A transactions. Though the price of these deals is also on the rise, the…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions Survey Report
Most merger & acquisition (M&A) deals tend to fall apart in the integration phase. Whether it’s underestimating the costs of integrations, setting unrealistic timelines,…
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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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2022 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2022. This report explores trends…
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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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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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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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Best Practices for Establishing a Project Management Office
A project management office (PMO) is a standardized management structure that provides governance, processes, and shared resources such as methodologies, tools, and…
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(1 - 5 of 238 Results)Actual Open-to-buy retail inventory as a percentage of planned retail inventory
Retail customer lifetime value
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "develop and counsel employees" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs that perform the processes "manage employee orientation and deployment," "manage employee performance," and "manage employee relations" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs that perform learning administration activities per $1 billion revenue
