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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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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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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Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important?
Supply chain benchmarking is important because managers need to:understand how their supply chains compare to competitors’,evaluate “as is” conditions before they can…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking
This collection provides a supply chain perspective on benchmarking as a strategic tool, with a goal of understanding how it can continue to drive value for organizations…
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Value of Benchmarking in Supply Chain
Benchmarking is the process of comparing and measuring a chosen set of variables internally or externally against others. APQC global research has found that organizations…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking: What, Why, and How
APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, Marisa Brown, shared actionable insights into supply chain benchmarking and its benefits. Hear about…
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Supply Chain Benchmarking: What, Why, and How
APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply Chain Management, Marisa Brown, shared actionable insights into supply chain benchmarking and its benefits. Hear about…
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The Future of Benchmarking
As markets and industries grow more interconnected, benchmarking is expanding in both importance and scope. This article explores six areas where benchmarking is expected to…
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Evolution of Benchmarking: A Supply Chain Perspective
Benchmarking has been and continues to be one of the most popular management tools. There is a critical need to look towards the future and understand how it will continue to…
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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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Driving Benchmarking Forward
Today, benchmarking remains one of the most popular management tools. But even great management tools like benchmarking cannot stand still and need to look toward the future…
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Automate to Elevate: Unlocking the Value Potential of AI-Powered Process Mining
A new era in digitally powered process improvement is here, fueled by a combination of rapidly advancing AI and improved access to the enormous enterprise resource planning …
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In this article, we review five productivity measures for finance that small organizations can use to measure and track the health of their finance function: business…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Cross Industry - PDF Version 7.1.0
APQC's Process Classification Framework® (PCF) is a taxonomy of business processes that allows organizations to objectively track and compare their performance internally and…
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Process Classification Framework|
APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) - Utilities - Excel Version 6.1.0
Effective benchmarking requires common definitions and processes. Like a shared language, organizations need to make apples-to-apples comparisons to obtain accurate…
