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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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Monitoring, Sensing, and Preparing for Supply Chain Risks: Industrial Products Industry
APQC collaborated with BCG to conduct research with 185 companies to evaluate the current state of a full range of operational and supply chain resilience capabilities needed…
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Managing Change
Most improvements in organizations require some degree of change. Navigating new territory and supporting employees through the change takes planning and care. This…
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2023 Managing Process Knowledge: Government/Military Industry Report
In 2023, APQC conducted research to identify the correlation between process performance and knowledge management to maximize process performance, mitigate risks, and improve…
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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions: Distribution/Transportation 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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The Intersection of KM and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Many organizations are rethinking their approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including how they can curtail bias and encourage diverse voices and perspectives…
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Understanding Sustainability Programs: Services Sector
Environment is touted as the next big disruptor organizations should prepare for. In October 2021, APQC conducted a survey to understand the scope of sustainability in…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Distribution/Transportation
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Government/Military
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Non-Profit
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes chip away at an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they can hurt innovation and competitive…
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Technology Advancements Disrupting the Global Construction Industry
The world’s rapid transformation from manual processes to digital technologies is empowering the construction industry. Construction companies are now provided with…
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How Teach for America Facilitates Collaborative Problem Solving
This document outlines Teach for America's process for running learning labs, facilitated sessions that help employees and supported teachers solve current challenges,…
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Strike Team: A Case Study in Conscious Leadership
Government entities are known to be hierarchical, conservative, and characterized by silos. As such, it’s hard for government organizations to change. At APQC’s 2019 Process …
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Simulation for Process Improvement
Simulation modeling provides a risk-free, cost efficient mean of examining the operation of complex processes and test improvement ideas before they are implemented. During a…
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Government entities are known to be hierarchical, conservative, and characterized by silos. As such, it’s hard for government organizations to change. At APQC’s 2019 Process …
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Simulation Modeling at the Port of Vancouver
Simulation modeling provides a risk-free, cost efficient mean of examining the operation of complex processes and test improvement ideas before they are implemented. During a…