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|
Accounts Payable Key Benchmarks: Pharmaceutical Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in accounts payable, this table highlights financial management key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for…
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Collections|
Getting the Most Out of Performance Measurement
Performance measurement can present tricky challenges for management, especially when dealing with cultural resistance. This collection of articles explains how to implement…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Airline - Excel Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
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Data and Measures|
Evolution of Benchmarking 2022: Manufacturing 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|
Understanding Sustainability Programs: Manufacturing Sector
Environment is touted as the next big disruptor organizations should prepare for. In October 2021, APQC conducted a survey to understand the scope of sustainability in…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Webinars & Videos|
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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Presentation Slides|
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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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar where KM leaders from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, REI Systems, and Amgen described ways to formally integrate…
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Webinars & Videos|
Embedding KM: The U.S. Army, REI Systems, and Amgen Discuss Ways to Build KM into Work
In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar where KM leaders from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, REI Systems, and Amgen described ways to formally integrate…
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Knowledge management (KM) has a natural affinity with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, STEM workers themselves may not know what KM is,…
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Data and Measures|
Supply Chain Analytics in the Manufacturing Industry
This manufacturing industry report shows the results from APQC's 2019 research into analytics and how it is used in various parts of the supply chain, how the efforts are…
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Presentation Slides|
Improving Process Execution & Lowering Risk through Knowledge Management
Have you read a standard operation procedure (SOP) lacking any insight on how to do your job or spent an overwhelming amount of time searching for additional information and…
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Have you read a standard operation procedure (SOP) lacking any insight on how to do your job or spent an overwhelming amount of time searching for additional information and…
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This executive summary outlines five best practices to embed knowledge and KM activities in the natural flow of employees' work. The recommendations focus on targeting the…