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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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Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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TRaVIS - Documentation Management for Small Businesses
As a startup company, Advanced Industrial Machine Solutions needed to manage its documents but had little time to design a document management system. In this session,…
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Reverse Engineering Organizational Resilency
In the wake of black swan events like COVID-19, leaders see building organizational resilience as an urgent priority. But it’s one thing to throw around “resiliency” as a…
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How Do We Do _____? Who Knows?
In 2016, Converse County School District was rudderless. It was facing new leadership and lacked standardized and documented processes. In order to embark on a path of…
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2010 - 2020: A Performance Management Odyssey
Jennifer Martin-Johnson, Performance Management Specialist at Prince Georges Public Schools, was tasked with developing and implementing a comprehensive Performance…
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Supporting Institutional Change Through Employee Engagement and Process Improvement
Developing a culture of business process management in an organization practically unchanged for 40 years is no easy task. Organizations may have some processes documented,…
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Giving Counselors and Support Staff Some Love
In this session, Adeeb Barqawi discussed how a large school district ensured that its support staff spent less time on paperwork and more time on what is most important,…
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Setting up a Robotic Process Automation Program in Treasury
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a form of server-based process automation that combines process steps with decision models or business rules with little to no human…
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The Power of Partnership: How KM and Process Can Work With—Not Against—Related Functions
As the fields of process and knowledge management evolve, these teams may find their missions overlapping with other support functions. For example, efforts to transfer…
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FP&A: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In this APQC webinar, guest speaker Brian Kalish (author and FP&A thought leader) discusses key challenges and opportunities in financial planning and analysis derived from a…
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Leading Practices for Reporting, Performance Measurement, and Improvement
In this APQC webinar, Rachele Collins (principal research lead, APQC) and Forrest Breyfogle (CEO, Smarter Solutions Inc.) discuss highlights from APQC’s latest research on…
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Strike Team: A Case Study in Conscious Leadership
Government entities are known to be hierarchical, conservative, and characterized by silos. As such, it’s hard for government organizations to change. At APQC’s 2019 Process …
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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…
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Value Chains, Policy Busting and Concept Models - Key Engineering Techniques for Escaping Silos
Organizational silos negatively impact customers, employees, and the organization’s ability to innovate and be agile. How can organizations bust through these silos? At APQC…
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Lean Approach to Process Improvement
As a highly effective approach to quality assurance, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) focuses on continuous improvement tools and techniques to eliminate waste, increase productivity,…