APQC recently chatted with Gabriel Zubizarreta on the challenges of process improvement in finance departments and why leveraging change is about culture.
Gabe will be leading the breakout session, Leveraging Change for Process Improvement, at APQC’s 2016 Process improvement Conference Oct. 3-7. 

According to new research conducted by APQC, finance leaders are keenly aware of the need to improve the finance function. What’s so new about that? A lot, actually.

Driving a Rover on Mars? Touring Valen's Reef in the Bird’s Head Seascape international preserve? Reliving Hurricane Sandy as the waters rose? I had a chance to experience all three of these in virtual reality (VR) at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival. 

After all these years it’s finally here!

You may have heard that APQC is adding definitions to the process framework. If you haven’t, go take a quick peek at the blog post where I announced their development. I put lots of information in there about why we did it and the history of definitions in the Process Classification Framework® (PCF).

The idea of organizations working closely with their suppliers to create mutually beneficial change is one APQC often talks about. These close relationships have the potential to yield benefits greater than just lower cost or a reliable source for materials.

As I hear and read about women in business, the same question keeps resurfacing: Why aren’t more women in leadership positions? Organizations are striving to improve gender equity figures in the hopes that a more diverse workforce will appeal to an increasingly diverse customer base. In addition, it’s been proven that a more diverse workforce can increase financial returns, employee engagement, and innovation.

4 Reasons Business Mentoring Matters

Regardless of what business purpose an organization pursues through mentoring, it must evaluate its program in order to determine whether it is achieving its goals.

Adam Grant is a supremely practical management guru with a well-deserved reputation based on his popularity as the youngest full professor at Wharton Business School, two best-selling books and a much-read Sunday New York Times contributor. (He might be the next Peter Drucker.) My very first BTBI interview was with Adam about his first best seller, Give and Take.

My life has become a never-ending quest. 

Evenings and weekends, I’m roaming the streets of my town in search of Pokémon.

If attending the Aspen Ideas Festival isn’t on your bucket list, you might consider adding it.

Every summer, one thousand movers and shakers, CEOs, authors, politicians, pundits, and artists gather to share the biggest ideas of the day and seek solutions to the world’s pressing problems. I had the pleasure of attending this year in late June and wasn’t disappointed.