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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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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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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Practices Report: Media & Entertainment Industry
This report summarizes practices in the Media & Entertainment Industry related to IT strategy and governance, methodologies and processes, focus areas, and maturity from APQC…
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Data and Measures|
Procurement Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Featuring data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® (OSB) in Procurement, this article provides key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations in the…
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Collections|
Procurement Key Benchmarks
Featuring data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Procurement, these articles highlight the median performance level on important procurement benchmarks for…
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Presentation Slides|
How to Boost Customer Experience with BPM and Design Thinking
Frameworks and methods from customer experience management (CXM), business process management (BPM), and design thinking (DT) had been utilized in several Endress+Hauser…
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The customer experience is critical to the success of your organization, but do your business processes reflect that importance? In a breakout session from APQC’s 2022…
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Data and Measures|
Understanding Sustainability Programs: Services 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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Tools & Templates|
KM Program Structure & Staffing Examples: Excellence in Knowledge Management Recipients
To date, APQC has recognized more than 20 mature KM programs as part of its Excellence in Knowledge Management initiative. The recognition is based on analysis from APQC’s KM…
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Data and Measures|
Talent Development Practices: Services Industry Report
This report explores practices used by organizations that completed APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Talent Development Survey in 2021. Topics include talent strategy, buy…
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On an APQC webinar, APQC Senior Advisor Darcy Lemons facilitated a panel on communities featuring leaders from KM programs recognized by APQC’s Excellence in Knowledge…
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Infographics|
What Makes Arup Excellent at KM?
Ove Arup & Partners (Arup) earned APQC’s 2020 Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in honor of achieving Level 5 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at the Enterprise…
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Case Study|
Excellence in Knowledge Management at Arup
Ove Arup & Partners (Arup) is a multinational professional services firm that provides engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for all…
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The nature of finance work is rapidly changing. As automation and other advanced technologies reduce the need for humans to complete some finance tasks, other factors—such as…
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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar with KM leaders from Toyota Motors North America, Ruckus Networks, and Schlumberger to find out how they have overcome cultural hurdles…
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Reports & White Papers|
Using Knowledge-Sensitive Measures to Evaluate KM's Impact in STEM Disciplines
This white paper explains how STEM fields track knowledge acquisition and application and how knowledge management (KM) programs can align with this measurement approach to…