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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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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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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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Most Common KPIs Across Organizations
APQC's 2024 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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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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In our annual Process and Performance Management Priorities research, APQC surveyed 162 process and performance management professionals to identify common challenges and…
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Top Data and Measurement Priorities in 2024
In this video, Madison Lundquist, Principal Research Lead for APQC's process and performance management research area, dives into the priorities and challenges associated…
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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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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…
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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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Normalizing Benchmarking Data
For comparisons to be meaningful, benchmarking data must be contextualized, or "normalized." This article explains how this is done using an example and discusses the…
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Preparing to shift toward a data-driven culture—a change that has as much to do with people as it does with data—is, accordingly, largely a people-centric activity. This is…
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Rolling out Analytics Capabilities
In previous research on change management, Transformational Change—Making It Last, APQC found that the key components of managing or rolling out any change, especially one…
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There’s an old business adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Best-practice organizations keep the emphasis on change objectives through targeted measures of…