APQC Podcasts

Getting Project Managers Involved in Knowledge Management: May 2017 KM Podcast

In this podcast, APQC principal research leads Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland talk about the research project they just wrapped, Managing Project Knowledge. The conversation focused on what Trees and Lyke-Ho-Gland see as the key takeaways for knowledge and project managers, including:

• the wide array of approaches that BAE Systems, NASA, Fujitsu, Volvo, and others use to ensure that project teams capture, share and reuse relevant knowledge;
• strategies to encourage collegiality and collaboration among project teams; and
• ways to get busy project managers to participate in KM activities

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Data and Analytics Challenges and Priorities for 2017

In December of 2016, APQC conducted a survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management practitioners in 2017.  In this podcast, research analyst Michael Sims and subject-matter expert Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland dig into the survey results to discuss what challenges organizations are facing in the area of data and analytics and what they can do to solve them.

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Managing the Transition to a Data-driven Business

In this August 2016 edition of APQC’s monthly research program manager interview, Michael Sims, research specialist at APQC. talks Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, research program manager in the area of process and performance management about change management for building a data-driven culture.

Topics discussed include:

• Why being data driven is important
• How to build the business case for becoming data driven
• Change Management tactics for shifting to a data-driven culture

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Why Knowledge Management Matters For Process Improvement

Organizations have masses of knowledge associated with their business processes. Some of this comes in the form of documents—everything from standard operating procedures and training materials to tips and lessons learned from past project teams—but other knowledge exists only in the heads of employees who design, own, and execute the processes every day.

On June 29, 2016, APQC’s Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland conducted a webinar on how to tie knowledge to process and follow-on Q&A podcast on the role of knowledge in process management. This podcast addresses some of the questions posed during the webinar.

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Why End-to-end Processes Matter

In this podcast, research specialist Michael Sims interviews research program manager Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland about what end-to-end processes are and why they're important to process management professionals.

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Process Management Case Studies: How They're Created and Why We Love Them

In the April 2016 Process and Performance Management podcast, APQC's research specialist Michael Sims talks with research services process and performance management program manager Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland about case studies, including why do organizations like them, how does APQC find its case studies, and how are they created.

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Why Are Some Organizations Still Scared of Analytics?

In the March 2016 Process and Performance Management podcast, APQC research specialist Michael Sims talks with research services process and performance management program manager Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland about data and analytics: why are some organizations still hesitant about embracing analytics and what are the big analytics research topics APQC will be addressing in 2016. 

For more information on analytics and process and performance management follow Michael @MSIMS_APQC and Holly @hlykehogland on Twitter.

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Dodging Icebergs: Why Organizational Agility Matters in 2016

In the February 2016 Process and Performance Management podcast, APQC's research specialist Michael Sims talks with research services process and performance management program manager Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland about what is organizational agility, who needs it, and how does it fit with strategic planning.

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The 2016 APQC Process Management Research Agenda

In the January 2016 Process and Performance Management podcast, APQC's research specialist Michael Sims talks with research services process and performance management program manager Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland about the process and performance management research agenda, including how the topic areas work together and how APQC identifies its topics for its research agenda.

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Voice of Conference: Process Management Edition

As we all know when we go to conferences we have several questions that surface as we attend presentations. To facilitate getting answers to those questions APQC introduced its inaugural Voice of Conference. Throughout the conference attendees were encouraged to place questions on whiteboards and rate the ones they found particularly meaningful. APQC’s staff then answered the most popular questions submitted. 

During this podcast APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Jeff Varney answer all of the questions that were not addressed at the conference on a range of process management topics (e.g., cross-functional processes, governance, and buy-in). 

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