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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|
Expense Reimbursement Practices Report: Automotive Industry
APQC conducts ongoing survey research on expense reimbursement performance to help organizations assess the structure, performance, and practice of their finance functions…
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Data and Measures|
Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Automotive Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in customer invoicing and credit, this table highlights financial management customer invoicing and credit key…
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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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Investing in effective enterprise content management processes is crucial for organizations. APQC's research on successful content management programs shows how to formulate…
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Reports & White Papers|
Reasons To Invest In Content Management
The importance of investing in enterprise content management processes and structures is becoming more apparent among organizations. Over time, the lack of effective…
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Data and Measures|
Payroll Key Benchmarks: Food and Beverage Manufacturers Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Process payroll” includes…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Payable Practices Report: Automotive Industry
APQC conducts ongoing survey research on accounts payable and expense reimbursement performance to help organizations assess the structure, performance, and practice of their…
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Articles|
Keep BPM Visible to Senior Leaders
Research consistently proves that increased leadership involvement results in greater change and buy-in for improvement initiatives. BPM needs executive-level sponsorship to…
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Articles|
Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
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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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Webinars & Videos|
An Interactive Conversation with 2020 Excellence in KM Recipients
In this two-hour web event, APQC’s Cindy Hubert, Darcy Lemons, and Lauren Trees facilitated three interactive conversations with leaders from high-achieving KM teams…
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Recently, APQC interviewed a large, multinational food and beverage manufacturing organization that faced the challenge of eliminating silos across languages and regional…
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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…
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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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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…