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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 8,200 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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In our annual Process and Performance Management Priorities research, APQC surveyed 296 process and performance management professionals to identify common challenges and…
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Most Common KPIs Across Organizations
APQC's 2025 operational KPIs survey reveals which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are most used in organizations. This infographic examines the top primary and secondary…
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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
To draw accurate conclusions from your benchmarking data, you typically must “normalize” the data. This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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Data-Driven Culture: How to Nurture, Lead, and Sustain It
To become a data-driven organization, you need a data-driven culture. When your organizational culture prizes evidence-based decisions over hunches and subjective judgements,…
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Exploring Process Automation
APQC recently conducted a survey to understand more around organizations’ process automation efforts and identify how they can overcome some of the above challenges. This…
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2024 Operational KPI Priorities & Challenges
APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities associated with operational KPIs for process and performance management (PPM) practitioners in 2024…
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Data Collection and Measurement in KPI Reporting
APQC conducted a survey on operational KPIs to collate data on how organizations are faring when it comes to KPI management in 2024. This infographic takes a close look at…
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How Do Decision-Makers View KPI Information?
APQC conducted a survey on operational KPIs to collate data on how organizations are faring when it comes to KPI management in 2024. This infographic takes a close look at…
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APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM are tools that can help organizations move from the “developed” stage and overcome the issues where so many organizations go wrong…
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How to Establish a Value Path
Organizations can leverage numerous approaches from the quality discipline to support their process improvement efforts. For the first step in identifying improvement…
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Tools & Templates|
How to Establish a Value Path Template
This tool links process performance, business outputs, and organizational goals in support of value creation. Simply put, a value path ensures a direct link from an…
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Process Management Paradigm Shift
Competencies in Lean, Six Sigma, or business process management are no longer enough for process teams to support their organizations’ needs. Accelerated changes in the…
