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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: Retail and Wholesale 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: Industrial Products 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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Data and Measures|
Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale 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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Data and Measures|
Current State of Learning and Development Survey Report: Retail and Wholesale Industry
In the first half of 2023, APQC launched a research study to understand how organizations are approaching learning and development (L&D) today. L&D leaders from across the…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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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: Retail and Wholesale 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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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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Data and Measures|
Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting: Industrial Products 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…