
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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Life Sciences PCF - Excel Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
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Data and Measures|
Accounts Payable Key Benchmarks: Pharmaceutical Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in accounts payable, this table highlights financial management key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for…
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Choosing the right quality methodologies is critical for organizations ability to mature their processes, think strategically, and grow their value. But how can organizations…
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Webinars & Videos|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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Presentation Slides|
Launching the Right Quality Initiatives
With so many quality methodologies—like Lean, DMAIC, and Six Sigma—at your fingertips, how do you choose the right one for your organization? Paul Orton discusses how…
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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar where KM leaders from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, REI Systems, and Amgen described ways to formally integrate…
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Webinars & Videos|
Embedding KM: The U.S. Army, REI Systems, and Amgen Discuss Ways to Build KM into Work
In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar where KM leaders from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, REI Systems, and Amgen described ways to formally integrate…
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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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Presentation Slides|
Improving Process Execution & Lowering Risk through Knowledge Management
Have you read a standard operation procedure (SOP) lacking any insight on how to do your job or spent an overwhelming amount of time searching for additional information and…
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Have you read a standard operation procedure (SOP) lacking any insight on how to do your job or spent an overwhelming amount of time searching for additional information and…
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Presentation Slides|
Tips to Motivate Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
Every organization has its own combination of policies and incentives to convince employees to build knowledge sharing and reuse into the way they work. In this presentation,…
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Webinars & Videos|
Tips to Motivate Knowledge Sharing and Reuse (Community Call)
Every organization has its own combination of policies and incentives to convince employees to build knowledge sharing and reuse into the way they work. In this webinar, APQC…
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Reports & White Papers|
Communicating About KM
In a crowded and complex enterprise communications landscape, it can be hard for KM teams to get their messages through to the workforce. This report outlines best practices…
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The balance of long- and short-term objectives enables knowledge management teams to ensure alignment with organizational objectives while, at the same time, pursuing…