Performance Management
APQC’s performance management research and tools can help your organization develop a sustainable model for effective performance management. Our Resource Library includes best practices, case studies, and tools to address known challenges in establishing a performance-driven culture, from ensuring consistency and alignment between purpose and measures to employee engagement. APQC gives you the resources you need to begin improving your organization’s performance management practices today.

Use APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking? to Measure Your Performance
With our comprehensive Open Standards Benchmarking assessments, you can find out exactly how your business processes stack up against the competition. Launched in 2004, Open Standards Benchmarking contains more than 2,000 standardized measures spanning people, process, and technology.
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Contact APQCSee How Your Process Management Efforts Measure Up
Use our Business Process Management Maturity Assessment Tool (BPM MAT) to benchmark your process management maturity and assess the current state of process management at your organization.
This assessment provides participants with a snapshot of their maturity in key business process management areas such as: governance, documentation, measurement, improvement practices, transparency, and use of tools and technology.
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Case Studies
Here are some recent case studies that describe how member organizations have applied APQC’s performance management resources to meet their business challenges:
Managing Change Across the Enterprise at Puget Sound Energy: Case Study
Puget Sound Energy, an energy and utility industry with 2,700 employees, identified change management as one of the areas needed to reduce the risk of failure to deliver key…
Establishing an Analytics Program: Cementos Argos S.A Case Study
To gain a competitive advantage in the cement market and deepen its existing culture of data-driven decision making, Argos set up a dedicated center for business analytics…
Putting Process Frameworks into Action: A Concentra Analytics Case Study
This case study explores how Concentra was able to establish the foundation required for sustainable and scalable growth by developing and combining structured and…
The applicability of APQC’s resources to our day-to-day work and the guidance provided by the resources help set the organization on a successful performance path.
Daniela Robu, Alberta Health Services

Upcoming Research Projects
Business Process Management Assessment
This project focuses on a gap assessment survey, based on APQC’s Seven Tenets of Process ManagementSM to look at your organization’s business process management maturity in key areas such as governance, strategy, improvement practices, and process models.
End-to-End Process Maps and Measures
This project included the development of end-to-end process maps, based on the Process Classification Framework?, combined with related KPIs and benchmarks for the most common end-to-end processes

Let Our Experts Guide Your Continuous Improvement Journey
Contact Our Advisory Services DirectorAPQC Advisory Services
Whether you’re just getting started on your continuous improvement journey or need guidance to address governance and oversight issues, our Advisory Services team can help you get the most out of your efforts. Our process and knowledge management consultants have helped hundreds of organizations worldwide apply APQC’s research and tools to improve performance and realize their business goals.
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