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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Tools & Templates|
Fixing Knowledge and Process Productivity Problems Survey Questions
In 2021, APQC conducted a large-scale research study on the productivity of knowledge workers. The project was designed to gauge how workers think about personal and team…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems: Analysis by Organization Size
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Collections|
Fixing Knowledge & Process Productivity Problems
Wasted time, duplicated work, and inefficient processes have a bearing on an organization’s bottom line. Small inefficiencies add up—and they also impede innovation, agility,…
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Articles|
Empowered Employees Improve Productivity
Most organizations are riddled with inefficiencies that can and should be fixed. But leaders often struggle to see these productivity drains, much less fix them, because they…
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Reports & White Papers|
How Knowledge Management Affects Employee Productivity
In 2021, APQC surveyed 982 full-time knowledge workers to understand how employees define productivity, what factors make them more and less productive, and what…
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Webinars & Videos|
How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Presentation Slides|
How Process and Knowledge Boost Personal Productivity
In this webinar, APQC Principal Research Leads Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Lauren Trees will share their latest research on productivity, including how bad process and knowledge…
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Reports & White Papers|
Process Interventions for Better Productivity
Too often, the word “productivity” conjures images of manufacturing floors, e-commerce warehouses, or the Toyota Production System. Efficiency (often measured as throughput)…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland disprove three productivity myths and offer guidance for workers and leaders based on APQC’s Fixing Knowledge &…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Generation Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Infographics|
4 Ways to Stop Ineffective Meetings
This infographic reviews four ways to stop ineffective meetings, one of the biggest time wasters APQC found in a recent research project on knowledge and process productivity…
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Infographics|
Stop Wasting 10% of Knowledge Workers' Time
This infographic reviews four key actions that organizations can take to fix findability problems. Knowledge workers whose organizations have taken these steps are…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Role Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Organizational Culture Analysis
In mid-2021, APQC surveyed full-time knowledge workers across industries to understand: How they define and measure work productivity Factors that make them more and…
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Infographics|
Productivity is a Well-Balanced Meal
APQC conducted a survey to explore the current state of productivity from the perspective of full-time knowledge workers. This infographic looks at the definition of and…