Barriers originate from a lack of motivation to adopt practices and an inadequate process of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices. Critical Success Factors APQC helps organizations avoid such pitfalls and fosters the natural desire to learn, share, and make things better. Consider the following critical success factors and key elements to benchmarking and best-practice transfer. Critical success factors are the core competencies or capabilities that must be accomplished for the organization to achieve its vision.
Key elements are lessons learned by best-practice organizations using a mature methodology.
Do the right study. Be committed to implement the results. Use an appropriate benchmarking process. Choose and empower the right teams. Know your own process first.