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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|
Managing Mergers and Acquisitions: Financial Services/Banking Industry
Most mergers & acquisition (M&A) deals tend to fall apart in the integration phase. Whether it’s underestimating the costs of integrations, setting unrealistic timelines,…
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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: 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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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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Presentation Slides|
Robotic Process Automation: The Gateway to Process Improvement
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco took a grassroots approach in building its robotic process automation (RPA) Center of Excellence, starting slowly with ad-hoc get…
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Presentation Slides|
Emotional Connection and Influencing Change
Building on Bill Benjamin's framework of the Science of Emotional Intelligence, this presentation explores powerful new concepts, applications, and strategies that improves…
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How to Be an Influencer: What It Takes to Shape Organizational Culture
In the face of disruptions like COVID-19 and trends like the Great Resignation, the stakes of culture are higher than ever for organizations. Outdated mindsets threaten…
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Presentation Slides|
A New Foundation: Rebuilding the Knowledge Base at Elevations Credit Union
Elevations Credit Union is a two-time Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, and knowledge management has played a crucial role in its improvement journey. This…
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Presentation Slides|
Open Innovation: Realizing the Value of Ecosystem Collaboration
As organizations are transitioning to increasingly open business models, open innovation has become an essential driver of growth. IBM and APQC have been researching open…
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Business stakeholders often underestimate the amount of time, labor, and other resources that it takes to implement robotic process automation (RPA) effectively. At APQC's…
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Articles|
Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a hot topic in today’s financial news, but M&A is a tricky growth strategy with a high failure rate. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge…
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As organizations seek to thrive through chaos and change, emotional intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand skillsets. Emotional intelligence is the…
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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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Data and Measures|
Dive into Data Visualization Quick Poll: Services Industry Report
APQC conducted a short poll to understand insight on organizations’ applications, management, and challenges regarding data visualization tools. Data visualization tools…