APQC Podcasts

Enterprise knowledge-sharing communities have been around for decades, but new technology and broader cultural trends are changing the norms of interaction in these groups. APQC’s Lauren Trees and Darcy Lemons discuss new trends in communities of practice and how to take advantage of the latest advancements.

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Is there value in the constraints that tight budgets put on us? Yes, according to Scott Sonenshein, an award-winning professor at Rice University, consultant to Fortune 500 and dot coms, and author of the new book Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined.

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In this podcast, APQC’s knowledge management guru, Lauren Trees, collides with APQC’s process and performance management expert, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland to discuss trends that will transform how employees interact, collaborate, and share knowledge over the next decade. The two of them cover what modern workers are experiencing, what changes they would like to see, and how looming technological and cultural shifts may influence business priorities and investments.

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APQC’s Financial Management expert, Mary Driscoll, unpacks the emerging role of cybercrime in the world of accounts payable

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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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:

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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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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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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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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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