
Training Course Catalog
APQC’s accredited training courses and certifications offer an efficient and cost-effective way to learn the tools and techniques needed to improve your individual and organizational capabilities and performance.
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Building a High-Powered KM Strategy (Learning Lab)
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.
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Conducting Benchmarking Projects
This course drills into the four phases of benchmarking - plan, collect, analyze, and apply - with a focus on the techniques and skills needed to perform benchmarking projects.
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Create a Value Path for Your KM Approach
This workshop will introduce participants to a variety of processes and tools to track the impact of KM activities on business processes and organizational outcomes.
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Developing a Process Management Business Case
The course will walk through the structure of Business Process Management (BPM), highlighting the fundamentals of business case components, including hard and soft benefits and costs.
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Enhancing Team Performance with Process Improvement (Learning Lab)
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
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Essential Skills to Map Process and Knowledge
In this course, participants will learn essential process mapping techniques and how to link critical knowledge assets to the processes. Through real-life examples and practical tips, participants will gain insights on how to apply these techniques for tangible benefits in your organizations.
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Establishing Effective Measures and Analytics
This workshop presents measurement essentials learned through APQC's research and hands on work with organizations. The session will include strategies for securing organizational buy-in and trust for selected measures.
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Evaluating and Improving Process Maturity
This course covers the essentials for process maturity assessments within any organization, demonstrating how to build a maturity model and apply it as part of continuous improvement across the business.
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Evolving and Sustaining a Knowledge Management Program
This course will help organizations understand how to evolve, sustain, and continuously improve their KM programs. Participants will develop use cases documenting real-life scenarios focused on their current KM capabilities and gain insights for improving their scenarios.
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Governance Essentials for Process and Knowledge Management
This course will discuss the foundational principles for effective governance that can be applied in
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Habits of Effective Knowledge Leaders (The Executive Leader's Role in KM)
This course is designed to give knowledge leaders the tools and strategies they need to succeed, whether they’re launching a large transformative initiative or keeping one fresh. Data from APQC research will be introduced that leaders can use to make a business case for advancing their knowledge management efforts.
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Improving Process Performance with Analytics
The process performance workshop prepares participants to understand process performance measurement and the importance of monitoring and controlling their processes.
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Integrating Process and Knowledge
This course illustrates the overlap and alignment of process and knowledge techniques, shows how knowledge and process workers can leverage the cross-over skills and working together, and how sustainable change within organizations can only be achieved with both.
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Knowledge Fundamentals (Boot Camp)
This two-day intensive boot camp is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and
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Leveraging Process Management Best Practices (Learning Lab)
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.