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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Case Study|
Leveraging Deep Knowledge Transfer at APQC
The Knowledge Management Capability Assessment Tool (KM CAT), one of APQC's flagship assessments, rates an organization’s capabilities and maturity in knowledge management…
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Tools & Templates|
APQC's Role-Based Matrix for Identifying Knowledge Needs: Editable Template
For many years, APQC has advocated knowledge mapping as a technique to help organizations identify the knowledge required to perform the work of the business, understand…
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Tools & Templates|
APQC’s Role-Based Matrix for Identifying Knowledge Needs: Description and Instructions
For many years, APQC has advocated knowledge mapping as a technique to help organizations identify the knowledge required to perform the work of the business, understand…
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APQC’s Knowledge Flow Matrix: Description and Instructions
For many years, APQC has advocated knowledge mapping as a technique to help organizations identify the knowledge required to perform the work of the business, understand…
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Webinars & Videos|
How to Transfer Knowledge: KM Essentials
This introductory webinar, part of APQC’s “KM Essentials” series, outlines the basics of knowledge transfer. APQC KM Principal Research Lead Lauren Trees and Executive…
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Presentation Slides|
How to Transfer Knowledge: KM Essentials
This introductory webinar, part of APQC’s “KM Essentials” series, outlines the basics of knowledge transfer. APQC KM Principal Research Lead Lauren Trees and Executive…
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Tools & Templates|
Innovation Approaches for Knowledge Creation and Sharing
Before knowledge can be stored and made accessible to others, it must first be created. Knowledge management (KM) approaches can play an important role in helping employees…
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Tools & Templates|
Approaches to Drive KM Adoption and Knowledge Reuse
Knowledge management (KM) only works when employees actually use KM tools and resources, so KM teams need to deploy targeted approaches to incentivize them to do so. The list…
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Reports & White Papers|
Choosing the Right Knowledge Transfer Approach
When selecting a knowledge transfer approach for a given scenario, APQC recommends familiarizing yourself with the options and then asking key questions about the nature of…
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Tools & Templates|
Documentation Approaches for Knowledge Capture
Critical knowledge is at risk when it's only stored in employees' heads. Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety of approaches for capturing critical knowledge through…
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Observation and Analysis Approaches for Knowledge Capture
One way to capture critical knowledge is by observing and analyzing employee behaviors. Compared to other critical knowledge capture techniques, such as interviews, these…
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Tools & Templates|
Collaboration Approaches for Knowledge Capture
Collaboration is one of the best ways to get critical knowledge out of people's heads so that it can be captured and transferred. Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety…
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Peer-to-peer knowledge sharing is more interactive and engaging than reading a document or watching a video. It also helps employees build their networks and feel more…
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The surest and most straightforward way to preserve organizational knowledge is by documenting it. Well before the establishment of the knowledge management discipline,…
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Learning sessions remain a go-to knowledge transfer approach because, no matter how much technology you add or subtract from the equation, the overall format is still very…