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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|
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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Data and Measures|
Evolution of Benchmarking 2022: Industrial Products
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|
Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Industrial Products 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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Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Automotive 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|
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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To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
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After more than a year of whirlwind change, it’s clear that organizations need to adapt faster and more often than ever before. Knowledge management (KM) and process…
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Data and Measures|
Strategic Planning and Organization Agility: Industrial Products Industry
APQC conducted a survey in March of 2021 to explore strategic planning practices and identify the key characteristics that drive organizational agility. This industry…
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Data and Measures|
Strategic Planning and Organization Agility: Services Industry
APQC conducted a survey in March of 2021 to explore strategic planning practices and identify the key characteristics that drive organizational agility. This industry…
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Articles|
Achieving Benchmarking Excellence at Boeing
Benchmarking is one of the most effective steps toward process and performance improvement, but can be an incredibly challenging endeavor in an organization as complex as The…
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Webinars & Videos|
Benchmarking: Two Tales of Success
Benchmarking is perhaps the most effective process and performance improvement tool—but it only works if you use it. In this session, Boeing and EY will share how they worked…
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Presentation Slides|
Benchmarking: Two Tales of Success
Benchmarking is perhaps the most effective process and performance improvement tool—but it only works if you use it. In this session, Boeing and EY will share how they worked…
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Presentation Slides|
Let's Get Intentional About Accelerating and Sustaining Process Improvement Behavior Change
Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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Presentation Slides|
Value Chains, Policy Busting and Concept Models - Key Engineering Techniques for Escaping Silos
Organizational silos negatively impact customers, employees, and the organization’s ability to innovate and be agile. How can organizations bust through these silos? At APQC…