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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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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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Emotional Connection and Influencing Change
Building on Bill Benjamin's framework of the Science of Emotional Intelligence, this presentation explores powerful new concepts, applications, and strategies that improves…
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How to Be an Influencer: What It Takes to Shape Organizational Culture
In the face of disruptions like COVID-19 and trends like the Great Resignation, the stakes of culture are higher than ever for organizations. Outdated mindsets threaten…
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Open Innovation: Realizing the Value of Ecosystem Collaboration
As organizations are transitioning to increasingly open business models, open innovation has become an essential driver of growth. IBM and APQC have been researching open…
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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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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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Redesign Your Process Audits: Link with Strategy and Improve your Maturity
Process audits are a norm in most industries and geographies; they are done for an array of reasons including, statutory requirements and internally for management assurance…
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World Class Journey- Implementing Business Process Management Across Intel Finance
In late 2018, Intel's Finance World Class Program triggered a project to design and implement a Business Process Management (BPM) framework. The goal of this effort was to…
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Benchmarking: Two Tales of Success
Benchmarking is perhaps the most effective process and performance improvement tool—but it only works if you use it. In this session, Boeing and EY will share how they worked…
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Being Agile: Adapting Design Processes
Many companies are embracing Agile, a project management paradigm that stresses iteration, collaboration, self-organization, and customer centricity. However, people are…
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Let's Get Intentional About Accelerating and Sustaining Process Improvement Behavior Change
Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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Creating a Culture of Outcomes
It is critical for organizations to ensure that their entire portfolio of projects delivers results that help move the business forward, yet many organizations lack an…
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Enabling Technology for Digital Transformation and Streamlined Processes
Today’s organizations contend with a distributed workforce, inefficient processes, increased competition, and customer demand, which are all key drivers of digital…
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Four Steps to Improve & Monetize Your Process Improvement Program
Most people understand that process improvement is valuable, but executives want to know how it will impact the bottom line. Overhauling complex business processes takes time…