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What are End-To-End Processes and How Do Organizations Use Them?
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They address large-scale…
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Unlocking Automation Excellence: Workato's Journey with APQC's PCF®️ as the Ultimate Foundation
Over the past decade, there have been rapid advancements in enterprise automation technology, leading to significant market adoption. To better assist its customers on their…
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How to Leverage Process Frameworks
APQC's recent Best Practices in Process Frameworks 2023 survey revealed that almost three-fourths of organizations use a process framework. Process frameworks help…
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Improve Project Success with a Process Framework
In these presentation slides Lawrence Dillon, CEO of ENKI LLC and Paul Dandurand, CEO of PieMatrix will discuss how they use APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® to…
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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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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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Pratt & Whitney Operations Process Classification Framework (PCF) Journey
Pratt & Whitney is an aerospace engine manufacturer with many diverse and complex operations processes. Senior leadership recognized that the organization had strong…
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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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Process and Performance Management for Diversity and Equity
Process tools are typically used for service improvement and cost saving, but they are also ideal for evaluating an organization's ability to deliver on diversity and equity…
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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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Pursuit of Excellence through Standardizing Core Processes and Process Mapping
In the past two years, Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation's (AHC’s) director of business processes and projects, Marya De LaCruz Sabalbaro, has worked with her organization…
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Value Pursuit Utilizing Enterprise Process Optimization and Standardization
Aerospace and defense organization Raytheon has a long history in leading innovation. But as technology and business conditions change, Raytheon must be able to adapt to…
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Influencing Change through Process Visualization
In The Vanguard Group’s old state, it was operating in business silos. It was a very inefficient process which led to multiple handoffs; a staggering 45 percent of work was…
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Simulation for Process Improvement
Simulation modeling provides a risk-free, cost efficient mean of examining the operation of complex processes and test improvement ideas before they are implemented. During a…
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Designing a World Class Opportunity to Order Process
Cherwell Software needed a program to streamline manual and sometimes duplicative processes in place to convert a prospect to a customer. This overview describes Cherwell’s…