No single role in HR suffers from a crisis of identity more than the HR Business Partner (HRBP). While many are calling for HR to serve a more strategic role, there are others who say HR’s job is to function as a hub dedicated to the administrative tasks that keep employees shuffling along. Amid these diametrically opposed concepts comes the HRBP– a role designed to serve as a conduit between the tactical and the strategic functions of both HR and the business.

So what’s holding back HRBPs? Is it the skills gap associated with training generalists to become strategists? Is it a lack of organizational enablement or recognition of the strategic power of the role?

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APQC’s Ron Webb, executive director of Open Standards Benchmarking, stats hub, and information systems, and Christy Aroopala, senior research statistician explore APQC’s methodology for driving decision making using process performance and benchmarking data. They discuss how to use basic statistical methods to identify meaningful findings and improve your business processes and will use real-life examples from process improvement projects on cycle time and customer satisfaction to illustrate the methodology. They will also share:

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APQC’s Ron Webb, executive director of Open Standards Benchmarking, stats hub, and information systems, and Christy Aroopala, senior research statistician explore APQC’s methodology for driving decision making using process performance and benchmarking data. They discuss how to use basic statistical methods to identify meaningful findings and improve your business processes and will use real-life examples from process improvement projects on cycle time and customer satisfaction to illustrate the methodology. They will also share:

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APQC’s Human Capital Management Research Program Manager, Elissa Tucker, and Talent Analytics, Corp.’s CEO, Greta Roberts, will talk about:

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APQC’s Human Capital Management Research Program Manager, Elissa Tucker, and Talent Analytics, Corp.’s CEO, Greta Roberts, will talk about:

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APQC's Andrea Stroud talks to author and business consultant Kate Vitasek about a fresh perspective and a new lens for thinking about supplier relationships

Key takeaways include:

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APQC's Andrea Stroud talks to author and business consultant Kate Vitasek about a fresh perspective and a new lens for thinking about supplier relationships

Key takeaways include:

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Join APQC's Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, process and performance management research program manager, and Sarina Paul, former group general manager of quality and operational excellence for Transfield Services and former executive director of advisory services for APQC, as they discuss Sarina's experience using APQC's Process Classification Framework® at Transfield Services. During this podcast Sarina and Holly discuss the biggest challenges in organization-wide process management, tactics for employee engagement, and how Transfield integrated process, quality, and knowledge management to optimize its process journey.

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Join APQC's Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, process and performance management research program manager, and Sarina Paul, former group general manager of quality and operational excellence for Transfield Services and former executive director of advisory services for APQC, as they discuss Sarina's experience using APQC's Process Classification Framework® at Transfield Services. During this podcast Sarina and Holly discuss the biggest challenges in organization-wide process management, tactics for employee engagement, and how Transfield integrated process, quality, and knowledge management to optimize its process journey.

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APQC CEO Dr. Carla O'Dell interviewed Ed Hoffman, Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA. Their conversation took unexpected turns: it ranged from why fear is needed if you want big change to what a CKO does in NASA (and how to discover the critical 5% of knowledge that matters) to what happens when the cowboy culture of Elon Musk’s SpaceX collides with a perfectionist culture like NASA’s.

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