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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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Building Blocks of Success: Seven Tenets of Process Management Maturity Model
APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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2024 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges Survey Report
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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Automate to Elevate: Unlocking the Value Potential of AI-Powered Process Mining
A new era in digitally powered process improvement is here, fueled by a combination of rapidly advancing AI and improved access to the enormous enterprise resource planning …
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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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Benchmarking 2022: Evolution of Strategic Value Survey Report
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look towards the future…
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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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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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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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Best Practices for Driving Agility: Better Structures and Strategy Practices
Through the pandemic, even the most traditional, well-established organizations gained real-world experience being agile. Now the question is whether they have the structures…
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Digital Transformation in the Utilities Industry Survey Report
Digital Transformation spans or blurs the boundaries between the Information Technology (IT) domains and Operational Technology domains for utilities. It’s not just about how…
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Unparalleled Portfolio Management: Best-Practice Processes and Lessons Learned
Portfolio management is a means to apply a standardized process for improving value and project delivery. Though many organizations have a portfolio management process for…
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Intersection of Data, Process, and Knowledge Management
APQC conducted a survey to understand trends in data management programs, their governance, structures, practices and how they integrate with other programs within the…
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COVID-19 Organizational Survival Guide
Along with the rising humanitarian toll, COVID-19 and its myriad impacts are undeniably going to shape businesses and economies around the world for years and even decades to…
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Change Management Practices for Establishing a Data-driven Culture (Best Practices Report)
Being data driven has become something of a holy grail for modern organizations. There are many pre-requisites to an organization’s becoming data driven, but perhaps none is…