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|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Aerospace Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Telecommunications Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Utility Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Data and Measures|
IT Organization Performance Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards…
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Infographics|
Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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Collections|
End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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Articles|
Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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Infographics|
Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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Tools & Templates|
Interactive Finance Organization Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Finance Organization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your finance function's…
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In a recent webinar, APQC's Darcy Lemons and Lynda Braksiek share insights on how to get started, no matter where you are in your knowledge management journey. In addition,…
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Articles|
The Future of Benchmarking
As markets and industries grow more interconnected, benchmarking is expanding in both importance and scope. This article explores six areas where benchmarking is expected to…
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Infographics|
Top 5 Benchmarking Challenges and Tips to Address Them
Benchmarking is an invaluable tool for organizations improving how they conduct business—it provides context on performance and helps pinpoint new practices. Throughout the…
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Infographics|
Driving Benchmarking Forward
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look toward the future…
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Reports & White Papers|
Automate to Elevate: Unlocking the Value Potential of AI-Powered Process Mining
A new era in digitally powered process improvement is here, fueled by a combination of rapidly advancing AI and improved access to the enormous enterprise resource planning …