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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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Organizational Readiness Assessment for Benchmarking (Excel Template)
Is your organization prepared to undertake a benchmarking initiative? Complete this assessment to determine what foundational elements need to be in place to begin new…
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APQC's Benchmarking Alignment Worksheet (Excel Template)
For benchmarking to truly benefit an organization, benchmarking projects must align with organizational strategy and be connected with actual work. APQC's Benchmarking…
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In-Person Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may decide to visit that organization in person…
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Virtual Site Visit Guide: Template
To gain an in-depth understanding of how work is accomplished within a best-practice organization, a benchmarking team may set up a virtual visit to the organization. Often…
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Benchmarking Site Visit Checklist
If your benchmarking team decides to conduct in-depth research at another organization, it can use this checklist to ensure that it properly prepares for the visit, has what…
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Developing good benchmarking partnerships is crucial to continued improvement. This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners…
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This article presents six steps an organization should take to ensure that benchmarking efforts support strategic objectives, along with tools to help structure improvement…
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Benchmarking Partner Selection Tool
This matrix tool is often used by benchmarking teams to determine which organizations to partner with in a study. This article explains how to use the matrix to ensure that…
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Scoping a Benchmarking Study
In order to see a benchmarking project through to its completion, an accurately defined scope must be determined. This guidance outlines how to designate a scope that focuses…
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This article outlines the roles of team members and other individuals involved in a typical benchmarking project. It defines the responsibilities associated with each role…
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Conducting research directly with individuals and organizations can be challenging. Interviews can get off track, surveys can yield inaccurate responses, and site visits can…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Strategic alignment is the first of APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management℠. Learn how to…
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Digital Transformation: Strategy to Tactics
Digital transformation is a high priority for many organizations. Everyone is talking about it, and leaders want to ensure that digital projects are moving forward…
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A real-estate organization’s change management team could not provide sufficient support to projects. It was responsible for change project execution but did not have…
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Presentation Slides|
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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