Resource Library
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|
Current State of Learning and Development Survey Report: Petroleum/Chemical 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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Collections|
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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Data and Measures|
Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Petroleum/ Chemical 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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Investing in effective enterprise content management processes is crucial for organizations. APQC's research on successful content management programs shows how to formulate…
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Reports & White Papers|
Reasons To Invest In Content Management
The importance of investing in enterprise content management processes and structures is becoming more apparent among organizations. Over time, the lack of effective…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Payable Practices Report: Petroleum/Chemical 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|
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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Webinars & Videos|
Why Knowledge-Centric Organizations Need Enterprise Search to Thrive
A key to successful knowledge management is ensuring information is easily accessible. But when it’s stored across different repositories, in all different formats, it has a…
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Presentation Slides|
Why Knowledge-Centric Organizations Need Enterprise Search to Thrive
A key to successful knowledge management is ensuring information is easily accessible. But when it’s stored across different repositories, in all different formats, it has a…
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Webinars & Videos|
An Interactive Conversation with 2020 Excellence in KM Recipients
In this two-hour web event, APQC’s Cindy Hubert, Darcy Lemons, and Lauren Trees facilitated three interactive conversations with leaders from high-achieving KM teams…
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Recently, APQC interviewed Carmen Lim, the order to cash global process adviser for Chevron Lubricants’ U.S. operations and product owner for Chevron Lubricants’ Agile team,…
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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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Case Study|
Excellence in Knowledge Management at Shell
Royal Dutch Shell is a global oil and gas company and one of the largest companies in the world. In 2019, Shell earned APQC’s Excellence in Knowledge Management Award in…
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Presentation Slides|
Exploring Excellence in Knowledge Management
In 2019, APQC launched its Excellence in Knowledge Management award to recognize organizations with mature KM capabilities in the areas of strategy, people, process, and…