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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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Evolving Practices in Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is the process by which organizations identify and manage a broad portfolio of significant risks in an integrated way. ERM is foundational…
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Articles|
Improving Inventory Management in Retail
Inventory management is always a delicate balance, and now, it’s more important than ever to get that balance right. In this article, you will learn about inventory…
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Data and Measures|
2021 Strategic Outlook Information Management and Search: Retail and Wholesale Industry Report
In early 2021, APQC and search solution provider Sinequa partnered to survey high-level knowledge management (KM) and IT leaders in large organizations about their projects…
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Data and Measures|
2021 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges: Retail and Wholesale Practices Report
APQC's financial management research team conducted a survey to better understand the priorities and challenges that finance professionals expect to experience in 2021. This…
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Reports & White Papers|
10 Steps to Get a KM Program Off the Ground
Speed to results is critical for any fledgling knowledge management program. The faster KM can switch from planning to execution and start delivering value to the business,…
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Data and Measures|
2021 Supply Chain Challenges and Priorities: Retail and Wholesale Industry
This industry specific report shares results from APQC's seventh annual supply chain priorities and challenges research. Gain insights from 455 organizations into top areas…
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Data and Measures|
IT Application Development and Maintenance Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in IT Application Development Performance Assessment, this article highlights important IT application…
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AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. In November 2020, the…
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Data and Measures|
Strategic Workforce Planning: Retail and Wholesale Industry Report
Workforce planning entails identifying the capabilities that an organization needs and making plans for how the organization will obtain them. In the fourth quarter of 2020,…
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Collections|
Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Highmark Health is a nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a “blended health organization,” Highmark Health includes both payers and…
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Enterprise Content and Collaboration in the Cloud
Cloud computing is one of the most pervasive trends in enterprise IT. In 2019, APQC surveyed more than 300 organizations to understand their use of cloud platforms to support…
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Data and Measures|
Digital Transformation of the Finance Function: Retail and Wholesale Industry Practices Report
APQC conducts ongoing research on the finance function to help organizations benchmark and assess the performance of their own finance functions against other organizations…
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Data and Measures|
Virtual Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector
In September/October 2020, APQC conducted a survey to understand people’s experiences collaborating virtually with coworkers. This report provides insight into virtual…
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