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APQC and other survey results show that few HR functions are working closely with business leaders to set and deliver upon organizational strategy. Most HR functions only occasionally engage with internal client leaders in a business partner, strategic advisor capacity. What are strategic HR partners doing differently compared to all other organizations?

This thing I like to call knowledge management (KM for short) reminds me of another time in my career where having certain skills and experience didn’t seem to make the “big leagues” of professions. Yet, what I learned then seems all too appropriate for what I’m doing today in KM. So much so that I submitted a presentation to KMWorld on the subject, and I’ll be facilitating a discussion there on Wednesday afternoon.

According to a recent blog post, The top three barriers to effective BPM,  that Chris Taylor wrote on SuccessfulWorkplace.com, there are generally three big challenges associated with implementing business process management (BPM) initiatives.

APQC was fortunate enough to interview Tim Hueneman , a Senior Principal with Trexin Consulting (www.trexin.com), specializing in business architecture and process management.  He blogs at BPM: Theory to Practice. Tim talked about the challenge of connecting ‘Big Data’ and BPM.

Should social networking be implemented for the supply chain? That is a topic of interest to Adrian Gonzalez of Adelante SCM. He argues in a blog post on Logistics Viewpoints that social networking can be applied to the supply chain because it is “about facilitating people-to-people communication and collaboration, which is at the heart of managing and executing supply chain processes.”

This time of year marks the beginning of the dreaded budgeting season for many finance organizations. The drill requires organizations to go through a ham-fisted process that has business unit managers guessing at revenue growth, costs, and spending patterns for 2014. But today’s finance leaders are growing wary of performing this exercise when they know its applicability will grow stale fast.  Specifically, they are getting tired of having to reconfigure the original plan every time a business condition emerges that voids original budget assumptions.

APQC's Executive Director of Membership and Research Services, Ron Webb, is joined by Theo Priestley, one of the industry's leading technology evangelists and BPM influencers.

Cisco System’s Gary Borella, manager for its Intellectual Capital (IC) Team, was the speaker for APQC’s June Knowledge Management (KM) Community Call.

IBM CEO and APQC Board Member Ginni Rometty recently declared the death of traditional marketing as we know it. New marketers MUST focus directly to the customer, not to the segment. Retailers are definitely feeling this pressure as consumers are pressuring them to lower prices, provide better service, and do it all at the time and place of the customer’s choosing.

In June 2013, TechTarget featured an  article by APQC's Mary Driscoll about organizations turning to Software as a Service (SaaS) for several finance operations, including processing for general accounting, disbursements, and payroll.