Training Course Catalog

APQC’s Knowledge Management Basics learning path provides a practical and foundational understanding and skill development for professionals looking to apply knowledge techniques across their organization. It focuses on understanding the many forms knowledge takes and the proven techniques to enhance its flow, use and reuse, and impact.

APQC’s Process Basics learning path is designed to provide foundational understanding and skill development toward proven techniques and practices for design and management of the work done across an organization. The courses include training on process and process management best practices that work across all sizes and types of organizations. You will gain understanding of critical process design practices that not only produce an effective and efficient process, but also make it sustainable and enable both continuous and transformative improvement.

Participants will step into a typical workplace environment to confront challenges like finding and reusing knowledge and see how these challenges impact performance and morale. Working with KM experts, the team will identify critical knowledge needs and redesign the workflow such that knowledge is captured and transferred while the work is being performed.

This course will focus on the process steps required to develop, align, and execute a KM strategic plan. Participants will simulate being part of a diverse KM team that represents the competing needs, perspectives, and focus areas that are typical in many organizations.

Participants will step into the operational roles of a high-volume transactional service industry and
work together to get the job done. While simulating ever-increasing performance requirements,
limited resources, and typical constraints on change, each iteration will allow for team-based
improvements that demonstrate the power of working together to find common solutions that
benefit the whole.

This course is organized around APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM and characteristics of high-performing, best-practice process-managed organizations. Participants will learn about each of the seven tenets and how they work together to build a strong process management approach.

This course introduces participants to process frameworks such as APQC’s Process Classification Framework (PCF)®. The structure, core principles, and use of frameworks will be studied with examples from real organizations.

This course will give participants the tools to understand what knowledge is truly critical to their organizations and determine the most urgent priorities for capture and transfer. It will include an overview of established best practices and examples from leading organizations.