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Jean-Claude Monney, global KM lead at Microsoft Services, discusses the links between KM strategy, execution, and culture.

Tuesday, August 5, APQC will be hosting a webinar to discuss the results of its research on how top performers in procurement compare to other organizations. APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement data was used to identify procurement top performers as organizations with high performance in four core areas:

I always have my eye open for research that might tell us more about how to leverage the expertise in our organizations, from novices to experts.  I stumbled across The Secret Life of the Grown up Brain (2010) I appreciated the highly readable, research-based and optimistic account of the (then) state of the cognitive, social and emotional development of the brain over a lifespan.

So the question is: “Culture or structure?” Now many of you may have heard the phrase, or its variant, something like: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” If that’s so, then certainly at the very least culture must be having structure for lunch then.

APQC is very fortunate to enjoy the multitude of uses of our Process Classification Framework (PCF). The APQC membership uses the PCF to breakdown siloed organizations, and Professional Services firms use it with their clients to make sure they are talking the same language and drive apples to apples comparisons.

In the July episode of the PCF Mailbag I discuss mapping and alignment between the PCF and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for IT processes, why the PCF doesn't use flow charts, and an easier and simpler way to compare older versions of the PCF to the most recent one.

If you have questions you want answered in our next PCF mailbag email me at [email protected]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DKv1ERgrZ4

According to the The New Reality of R&D  article in the May 2014 issue of Fast Company magazine, organizations are no longer investing large amounts of money into long-term research that only offers a return on investment way down the road. Instead, they are teaming up with other organizations that have the necessary resources to improve the amount of time it takes to see a return on R&

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