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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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Having rigorous processes in place is critical when lives are at stake. By adapting APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)® and applying Lean principles to its process…
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Reduce Scrap and Rework Costs
Scrap and rework is an important metric to track in manufacturing. Use this document to compare your organization's performance against over 1,000 other organizations…
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Recipe for Operational Excellence: APQC Framework + Lean Principles + Knowledge Management System
Having rigorous processes in place is critical when lives are at stake. GeoComm is a software company that combines supportive map data and location content into a…
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Recipe for Operational Excellence: APQC Framework + Lean Principles + Knowledge Management System
Having rigorous processes in place is critical when lives are at stake. GeoComm is a software company that combines supportive map data and location content into a…
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How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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Through research, APQC discovered 12 common practices for measuring corporate quality that organizations should consider. The 12 practices fall into four categories:…
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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This collection provides explanations and examples of models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides for use in benchmarking. These include tools for analysis, planning,…
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Benchmarking and Improvement Tools
This is an APQC guide with models, techniques, diagrams, charts, and guides that organizations can use in their benchmarking and process improvement efforts. These include…
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Template
With highly technical processes, systems and technologies have multiple failure modes. How can it fail? What can go wrong with it? Have you ever looked at that systems view…
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YOKE Industrial faced a number of challenges that served as the impetus for a digital transformation effort including a labor shortage, the need for better knowledge…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Measures of Quality
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Cross-Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Aerospace Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
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Key Benchmarks for Common Quality Measures: Pharmaceutical Industry
Although an undeniably useful measure, the total cost of quality only focuses on one aspect of quality, costs: preventive, appraisal, internal failure, and external failures…
