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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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Managing Mergers and Acquisitions: Software/Technology 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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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 Outdated mindsets threaten…
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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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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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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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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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People-Centered Change Management: Sunflower
In 2016, Sunflower’s executives agreed to transition the organization to a cloud-based ERP to save costs and prioritize cybersecurity. In the earliest stages of the project,…
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Cherwell Software needed a program to streamline manual and sometimes duplicative processes in place to convert a prospect to a customer. This overview describes Cherwell’s…
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When digital transformation initiatives fail to deliver value to an organization, leaders rightly wonder whether the time and resources devoted to these efforts are well…
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Shifting Organizational Climate, Culture and Expectations
When Dr. Todd Cramer started as its superintendent, the Maumee City School district had many areas that needed improvement. During APQC’s 2019 Process and Performance…
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Let's Get Intentional About Accelerating and Sustaining Process Improvement Behavior Change
Behavior change is a critical success factor for process improvement initiatives, but for Paul Fjelsta, far too many organizations go about the work of behavior change in the…
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Several years ago, Boone County Schools applied process and performance management principles to its operations department to generate over a million dollars in savings. Now,…