
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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Fundamentals of Measures
One of the reasons organizations grapple with effective data & analytics is their lack of a solid measurement foundation. Particularly around identifying the relevant, …
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Presentation Slides|
Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This presentation discusses an overview of the M&A process, pre-close planning, integration planning, key points for post-acquisition integration, and multi-industry lessons…
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Articles|
Creating Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a hot topic in today’s financial news, but M&A is a tricky growth strategy with a high failure rate. At APQC's 2022 Process and Knowledge…
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Infographics|
Making Strategies Stick: 2022 Strategic Planning Challenges
In December of 2021, APQC conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management practitioners. This infographic…
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There are so many technologies that can help process and knowledge management (KM) professionals deliver more for end users and the business. Two of the most popular…
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Measures are used to gauge operational performance, allocate resources, and identify opportunities for improvement. Measures allow organizations to track performance over…
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Articles|
Picking the Right Measures
Best-practice organizations know that choosing the right measures are critical step in generating meaningful insights and reports. A well-balanced set of measures provide…
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Data and Measures|
Productivity Metrics: Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain
APQC’s Process and Performance Management (PPM) team examined some of the most common productivity metrics and KPIs within Financial Management (FM), Human Capital Management…
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Balanced Scorecards: Common Measures
Creating a balanced scorecard for your organization? This list of common balanced scorecard measures is a great place to start in determining the measures needed for your…
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Articles|
Manufacturers' Aligning and Selecting KPIs
Based off data from APQC’s Operational KPIs That Matter survey, this article looks at the alignment between organizational priorities and the measures manufacturing…
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Articles|
Manufacturer's Reporting Practices
APQC conducted a survey to garner insights into KPI management challenges. The survey explored the KPIs that organizations use to manage operations, their alignment to…
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Reports & White Papers|
Trends in Data and Analytics: Survey Summary Report
In March 2019, APQC conducted a survey on the latest trends in data analytics to learn how enterprises are capturing business value from their analytics investments. This…
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Articles|
Overcoming Challenges in Working with Data
We are a digital society with enormous amounts of data at our fingertips, but there are a plethora of challenges to effectively using data to make well-informed decisions. In…
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While many organizations depend on financial outcomes and operational efficiency as metrics of success, these metrics may not align fully with a customer-centric business…
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Managing KPI processes effectively can be a daunting task for many organizations. APQC’s recent survey on operational KPIs indicates that while organizations are keen to use…