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Process Improvement Spotlight: Why Big Data and BPM Struggle Together
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. APQC: …
Supply Chain Management and Social Networking
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…
Top Four Reasons to Leave Annual Budgeting Behind
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…
Theo Priestley on overcoming BPM Technology Hurdles
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. In this interview, Theo discusses the biggest hurdles organizations experience in connecting people to the right…
Cisco's Gary Borella talks on its KM recognition program
Cisco System’s Gary Borella, manager for its Intellectual Capital (IC) Team, was the speaker for APQC’s June Knowledge Management (KM) Community Call. He spoke about how Cisco’s KM program has been successful with the help of its recognition program. The one-hour presentation can be viewed…
Three Ways to Extend the Retail PCF
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…
Manage Change When Transforming Finance Operations
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. Driscoll advises that organizations consider change…
Workplace Design: How Does It Affect Employee Performance?
APQC recently remodeled our Houston, Texas office space! Much of the remodeling focused on updating the current space to ensure employees were comfortable in their work environment so they could do their best work. In a recent report on Work Environment Redesign, authors at Deloitte University…
Managing the Risk of Supply Chain Disruption
Last month, APQC hosted a webinar on managing the risk of supply chain disruption. APQC'S Mary Driscoll, Experis' Eric Gerner and John Hejka, and Baker Hughes' Mike Miedema looked at how organizations identify and mitigate supply chain risk while maintaining efforts to control costs of materials…
Personal Productivity – What makes you more productive?
APQC is putting the finishing touches on a study that examined which tools (software and hardware) our members are using to be more productive at home and in the workplace. We found that laptops and smartphones are the tools that are used most often (see chart below). This comes on the…