APQC Podcasts

Workforce Planning Gets an Upgrade

Yesterday’s workforce planning won’t cut it today. Find out why and what needs to change in this APQC human capital management podcast, sponsored by T.H. Easter Consulting. APQC’s Rachele Collins interviews APQC’s Elissa Tucker, principal research lead, human capital management. Elissa describes the three A's of upgraded strategic workforce planning programs: accountability, agility, and analytics. Then, Terri Hartwell Easter, principal of T.H. Easter Consulting shares her perspective on this topic.

For more information on strategic workforce planning see the APQC report: Strategic Workforce Planning: Best and Next Practices Report.

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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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Close-up on Finance Analytical Capabilities

APQC’s Financial Management expert, Mary Driscoll, explains what the top finance analytical capabilities challenges are for 2017 and how to address them.

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Finance Gaining a Stronger Handle on Process Standardization

APQC’s Financial Management expert, Mary Driscoll, explains what the top finance process standardization challenges are for 2017 and how to address them

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Collaboration and Trust in the Virtual Workplace: March 2017 Knowledge Management Podcast

In this podcast, APQC CEO Carla O’Dell and KM Principal Research Lead Lauren Trees talk about ways to improve collaboration and build trusted relationships in the virtual sphere. The first segment focuses on recent decisions by several large companies to limit or eliminate virtual work in an effort to boost collaboration. O’Dell and Trees delve into the thinking behind these policies , why so many organizations struggle with virtual collaboration, and what can be done about it. In the second segment, O’Dell and Trees discuss a recent APQC webinar by Alok Gupta, data science manager at Airbnb, and how the strategies for building trust in the peer-to-peer economy can be applied to enterprise knowledge sharing.

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Challenge of Balancing Collaboration With Potential of Distractions

APQC CEO Carla O'Dell spoke with Cal Newport as part of the "Big Thinkers, Big Ideas" interview series. The bestselling author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Newport is an assistant professor at George Washington University and the author of numerous bestselling titles. He spoke with O'Dell about "deep work" and the need to balance collaboration with private space to focus in the face of many distractors.

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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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Barriers To Knowledge Sharing: Overcoming Distance and Building Strong KM

APQC research has shown that one of the biggest mistakes that KM programs make is not identifying and systematically addressing the obstacles that block employees from contributing, accessing, and reusing knowledge. The research has found the first step in developing an effective KM change management strategy is recognizing those barriers. In 2013, APQC partnered with its KM advanced workshop to identify ten barriers to enterprise knowledge sharing. Over a series of KM podcasts, all ten of these barriers will be addressed. On this podcast, APQC executive director Cindy Hubert and KM research program manager Lauren Trees address the barrier of distance

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Barriers To Knowledge Sharing: Poor KM Culture and How To Fix It

APQC research has shown that one of the biggest mistakes that KM programs make is not identifying and systematically addressing the obstacles that block employees from contributing, accessing, and reusing knowledge. The research has found the first step in developing an effective KM change management strategy is recognizing those barriers. In 2013, APQC partnered with its KM advanced workshop to identify ten barriers to enterprise knowledge sharing. Over a series of KM podcasts, all ten of these barriers will be addressed. On this podcast, APQC executive director Cindy Hubert and KM research program manager Lauren Trees address the barrier of culture.

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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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