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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Knowledge Management and Process Management: A Winning Combination for Continuous Improvement
By effectively harmonizing process and performance management (PPM) with a strong knowledge management (KM) program, organizations can realize unexpected synergy and…
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Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
An end-to-end process mindset is often necessary to help organizations achieve their goals because strategic goals are rarely functional in nature. They are large-scale…
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This collection brings together summaries of APQC’s major process and performance management research projects from the past five years. All the summaries are open to the…
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Top 5 Benchmarking Challenges and Tips to Address Them
Benchmarking is an invaluable tool for organizations improving how they conduct business—it provides context on performance and helps pinpoint new practices. Throughout the…
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Process analysis involves gathering a set of requirements and needs to guide process design, improvement, and measurement. Organizations can use process analysis to either: …
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Presentation Slides|
Assess, Improve, and Benchmark Using the BEST Method
The BEST tool is a structured approach to gap analysis and improvement for an organization creating a Best Practice or an organization seeking a Best Practice as a benchmark…
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To remain competitive, organizations must continuously benchmark and improve their processes. However, many struggle to get started with, prioritize, and execute process…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Manufacturing Sector
This manufacturing sector specific report explores trends in process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in process management,…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Services Sector
This services sector specific report explores trends in process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in process management, organizational…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Services Industry
This services industry specific report explores trends in process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in process management,…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Government/Military Industry
This government/military industry specific report explores trends in process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in process management,…
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As leaders look to the road ahead, many recognize that effective organizational performance management will be ever-more critical. In this article, you will learn about the…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Comparative by Corporate Culture
This report explores trends process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in: business process management, continuous improvement, data and…
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Data and Measures|
2021 PPM Priorities and Challenges: Comparative by Role
This report explores trends process and performance work and reveals the top five priorities and challenges in: business process management, continuous improvement, data and…