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Data and Measures|
2024 Process & Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2024.This report explores trends in…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Petroleum/Chemical Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
2023 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2023. This report looks at the top…
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Data and Measures|
2023 Process and Performance Management Priorities and Challenges: Software and Technology Industry
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management (PPM) practitioners for 2023. This report looks at the top…
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Evolution of Benchmarking 2022: Chemicals 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|
Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Petroleum/Chemical 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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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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Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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Process audits can be a helpful approach for evaluating performance and evolving maturity. However, many process audits are transactional and disconnected from organizational…
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For Alvaro Caamaño (Business Process Architect, Intel), setting up a business process management (BPM) framework is like building a house: Without the right foundations and a…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Webinars & Videos|
Curating a Process Mindset in Tech Finance
Salesforce was struggling to set up a process improvement program at scale, due to being constrained by the startup mentality of a young company. In this session, Jerome…
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Webinars & Videos|
Redesign Your Process Audits: Link with Strategy and Improve your Maturity
Process audits are a norm in most industries and geographies; they are done for an array of reasons including, statutory requirements and internally for management assurance…
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World Class Journey- Implementing Business Process Management Across Intel Finance
In late 2018, Intel's Finance World Class Program triggered a project to design and implement a Business Process Management (BPM) framework. The goal of this effort was to…
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Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…