APQC Podcasts

APQC Podcasts

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APQC Podcasts episodes

  • What's Holding Back True Human Resources Partnerships?
    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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      10 min
    • Applying Process Analytics for Effective Decision Making
      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:
      •  Applying business process analytics for substantive process improvements
    •  Identifying relevant process data to support decision making
    •  Taking your benchmarking projects to the next level.
    • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!
      41 min
    • Applying Process Analytics for Effective Decision Making
      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:
      •  Applying business process analytics for substantive process improvements
    •  Identifying relevant process data to support decision making
    •  Taking your benchmarking projects to the next level.
    • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!
      41 min
    • Getting Started with Predictive Workforce Analytics
      APQC’s Human Capital Management Research Program Manager, Elissa Tucker, and Talent Analytics, Corp.’s CEO, Greta Roberts, will talk about:
      • staffing and structuring a workforce analytics capability,
    • dealing with data adversity,
    • choosing analytics projects and methods,
    • sharing quantitative results with data-shy clients, and promoting a data-driven approach to talent decision making.
    • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!

      16 min
    • Getting Started with Predictive Workforce Analytics
      APQC’s Human Capital Management Research Program Manager, Elissa Tucker, and Talent Analytics, Corp.’s CEO, Greta Roberts, will talk about:
      • staffing and structuring a workforce analytics capability,
    • dealing with data adversity,
    • choosing analytics projects and methods,
    • sharing quantitative results with data-shy clients, and promoting a data-driven approach to talent decision making.
    • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!
        16 min
      • Why Sourcing Strategies In Procurement Fail
        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:

        • Why some of the worlds’ most popular sourcing strategies are incomplete for today’s modern procurement challenges
      • Why and when it is essential to make the shift from “buying” to “architecting” supplier relationships
      • How systems thinking can optimize supplier relationships 
      • How to apply Sourcing Business Model theory for any spend category 
      • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!

        44 min
      • Why Sourcing Strategies In Procurement Fail
        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:
        • Why some of the worlds’ most popular sourcing strategies are incomplete for today’s modern procurement challenges
      • Why and when it is essential to make the shift from “buying” to “architecting” supplier relationships
      • How systems thinking can optimize supplier relationships 
      • How to apply Sourcing Business Model theory for any spend category 
      • Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!
          44 min
        • How Transfield Services Improved Organization-Wide Process Management
          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.

          Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!


          28 min
        • How Transfield Services Improved Organization-Wide Process Management
          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.
          Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!
          28 min
        • Knowledge Management: Mining the knowledge of SpaceX and NASA
          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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          29 min

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