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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Data and Measures|
Evolution of Benchmarking 2022: Insurance Industry
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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Data and Measures|
Evolution of Benchmarking 2022: Media and Entertainment Industry
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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Case Study|
Building a Collective Mindset: Operationalizing a Governance Structure for a Global Supply Chain Network
This case study outlines how to establish a central governance structure across a supply chain network of different companies and organizations working together. It is…
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Data and Measures|
Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Aerospace Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Data and Measures|
Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Pharmaceutical Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Presentation Slides|
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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Presentation Slides|
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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As an organization grows over years, processes diverge. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, AstraZeneca’s Business Process Manager Christopher Moriak…
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No matter how smart and capable your employees are, they will struggle to work together effectively if they operate in silos. Process management helps organizations dismantle…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Insurance
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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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Pharmaceutical
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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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Education
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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Business process management delivers real benefit to organizations. See several examples of definitive gains from best-practice organizations identified by APQC here.
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Articles|
Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
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Articles|
Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…