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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How to Apply Process Frameworks
This collection provides "how to" guidance and best practices for the top applications of process frameworks, including APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF)®.
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How to Analyze Process Risk
Every process has inherent risks that can result in unintended consequences. Understanding the source of risks, as well as the reliability of a process, allows an…
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Tools & Templates|
PCF-Based Risk Assessment Tool
This tool can be used to assess and document the potential risks associated with the organization's processes as discussed in Managing Risk: How to Use the Process…
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Presentation Slides|
Make People Productive Without Driving Them Crazy
Organizations want their employees to be more productive—and most employees want that too. But despite everyone’s good intentions, the median knowledge worker spends 25…
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Busy but not productive: it is the feeling that everyone dreads. At APQC's 2022 PPM and KM Conference, APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Cindy Hubert led a general session on…
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Data and Measures|
Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems Survey Report: Financial Management
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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Developing an enterprise-wide process model is a daunting task, particularly for large, complex organizations. This article offers four best practices to guide your efforts…
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Expanding How We Define Productivity
APQC’s founder, Jack Grayson, believed that true productivity encompasses both effectiveness and efficiency: “Efficiency measures if you are doing things right. Effectiveness…
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Six Core Capabilities for Resilence: Q&A
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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Six Keys to Organizational Resiliency
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are increasingly focused on organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate…
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Webinars & Videos|
Reverse Engineering Organizational Resiliency
In the wake of black swan events like COVID-19, leaders see building organizational resilience as an urgent priority. But it’s one thing to throw around “resiliency” as a…
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Reverse Engineering Organizational Resilency
In the wake of black swan events like COVID-19, leaders see building organizational resilience as an urgent priority. But it’s one thing to throw around “resiliency” as a…
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Data and Measures|
Reactive to Proactive: Financial Management in the Next 90 Days
While there are still many uncertainties around COVID-19, ranging from its economic impact to the potential for a second wave, organizations are pivoting to building…
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Reports & White Papers|
COVID-19 Organizational Survival Guide
Along with the rising humanitarian toll, COVID-19 and its myriad impacts are undeniably going to shape businesses and economies around the world for years and even decades to…
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Presentation Slides|
Developing a Growth Mindset for Finance Talent Development
Are you growth-minded? Your Finance team’s evolution starts with cultivating a growth mindset. In a constant changing world, the need for finance associates to “think…