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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Reports & White Papers|
Ecosystems and Open Innovation: Co-Create or Stagnate
To move from aspiration to realization in an era of exponential technology, organizations must determine what business value they can derive from innovation with ecosystem…
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Collections|
Understanding Product/Service Development Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare product/service development performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare product development performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Tools & Templates|
Stage-Gate Business Case Editable Template
The purpose of this stage-gate business case editable template is to provide leadership with the information required to evaluate a new product or concept in context with…
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This collection includes tools and templates for the stage-gate process for innovation and new product and service development.
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Tools & Templates|
Stage-Gate Process for Innovation and New Product Development
This guide explains the stage-gate process for innovation and new product and service development, including an example innovation process flow as well as the gates (i.e.,…
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Tools & Templates|
Stage-Gate Checklists for Gatekeepers
As new product/service ideas move through a stage-gate process, gatekeepers (decision-makers) must evaluate them after each stage, typically in a "gate" meeting. This set…
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Tools & Templates|
Stage-Gate Business Case Template
The purpose of this stage-gate business case template is to provide leadership with the information required to evaluate a new product or concept in context with other…
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Presentation Slides|
Costovation: Bring Innovation to the Cost Side of the Business
In these presentation slides, Stephen Wunker from New Markets Advisors discusses with APQC's Marisa Brown why now is the time for organizations to use the tools of innovation…
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Webinars & Videos|
Costovation: Bring Innovation to the Cost Side of the Business
In this recorded webinar, Stephen Wunker from New Markets Advisors discusses with APQC's Marisa Brown why now is the time for organizations to use the tools of innovation on…
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This collection features content related to the report Open Innovation: Creating Flexible Collaboration. It includes best practices identified in the report as well as key…
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The enduring promise of open innovation is to get work done faster, cheaper, and with better ideas. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to build a culture that is…
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Today’s markets move and evolve with incredible speed. Keeping up requires embracing open innovation: the organization looks beyond itself for new ideas, strategies, and…
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Infographics|
How Supply Chain Can Support Innovation
Many supply chain organizations have adjusted to the last 18 months by adopting innovative ways of working and conducting business. In fact, a survey of supply chain…
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APQC asked leading thinkers on innovation and disruption how organizations can recover from the events of the past year. Scott Anthony from Innosight and Stephen Wunker from…
Measure Spotlight Results
(1 - 5 of 31 Results)Total cost to perform the process group "develop products and services" per $1,000 revenue
Number of FTEs (including external) that perform the process group "develop products and services" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs for the phase 'design and develop product/services' per $1 billion revenue
Personnel cost of the phase 'design and develop product/services' per $1,000 revenue
Total cost of the phase 'design and develop product/services' per $1,000 revenue
