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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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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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Scenario Planning Example in Practice
Scenario planning can help as an organization prepares to mitigate the worst impacts of disruption and quickly take advantage of new opportunities. Regardless of whether the…
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To combat operational silos limiting process improvement efforts, Vanguard developed a structured approach to engage the business in value stream mapping, which allowed it to…
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Enterprise Content and Collaboration in the Cloud: Automotive Industry
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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Enterprise Content and Collaboration in the Cloud: Financial Services/Banking Industry
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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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting: Financial Services/Banking Industry
APQC conducted a survey to help understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting and how finance functions are leveraging data…
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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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In November of 2019, APQC interviewed Tony Vu, treasurer for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, about data visualization in financial reporting. Read this case study to learn…
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Live Future Ready with Scenario Planning
In an uncertain and unpredictable world, disruptions to business as usual—whether good or bad—can come at any time. While no organization or finance professional can predict…
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Exploring Excellence in Knowledge Management
In 2019, APQC launched its Excellence in Knowledge Management award to recognize organizations with mature KM capabilities in the areas of strategy, people, process, and…
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Exploring Excellence in Knowledge Management
In 2019, APQC launched its Excellence in Knowledge Management award to recognize organizations with mature KM capabilities in the areas of strategy, people, process, and…
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earned APQC’s 2019 Excellence in KM Award in honor of achieving Level 3 on APQC’s KM Capability Assessment at the enterprise level…
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Lean Approach to Process Improvement
As a highly effective approach to quality assurance, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) focuses on continuous improvement tools and techniques to eliminate waste, increase productivity,…
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Building Momentum Together: Our Journey of Continuous Improvement
Several years ago, Boone County Schools applied process and performance management principles to its operations department to generate over a million dollars in savings. Now,…
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Shifting Organizational Climate, Culture and Expectations
When Dr. Todd Cramer started as its superintendent, the Maumee City School district had many areas that needed improvement. During APQC’s 2019 Process and Performance…
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