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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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management Supporting Content and Best Practices
This resource guides you towards the best approach to improving your business process management with detailed definitions and process steps for each of APQC's Seven Tenets…
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How to Analyze Process Risk
Every process has inherent risks that can result in unintended consequences. Understanding the source of risks, as well as the reliability of a process, allows an…
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Driving Value Realization Through Post-Acquisition Integration
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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Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This presentation discusses an overview of the M&A process, pre-close planning, integration planning, key points for post-acquisition integration, and multi-industry lessons…
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Operational Excellence in an Era of Disruption - Responding to Uncertainty with Agility
Clinical development processes at AstraZeneca govern how they work to bring new medicines to patients as rapidly as possible. After dealing with thousands of long, complex,…
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How to Boost Customer Experience with BPM and Design Thinking
Frameworks and methods from customer experience management (CXM), business process management (BPM), and design thinking (DT) had been utilized in several Endress+Hauser…
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Creating a Continuous Improvement and Process Driven Culture
Creating a culture is a complex challenge. CMI's Shared Service Center focused on four key elements—organization, language, technology, and methods—to develop a continuous…
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Fixing Knowledge and Process Productivity Problems Survey Questions
In 2021, APQC conducted a large-scale research study on the productivity of knowledge workers. The project was designed to gauge how workers think about personal and team…
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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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Assessing Process Management Improvement Tools Activity Sheet
The following tool is a useful way to stimulate conversation about process management both within and between organizational groups. Using this tool, process management…
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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…