May 1, 2008

SigmaFlow, a leading provider of Business Process Intelligence solutions is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor the APQC 13th Annual Knowledge Management Conference.

“We are very pleased to sponsor the APQC conference as well as the book-signing of Carla O'Dell and Jack Grayson’s book “If Only We Knew What We Know:  The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practices, SigmaFlow’s Jay Holstine said.  “The book describes the vast APQC membership’s need to effectively identify, distill and transfer best demonstrated practices.  We have incorporated much of AQPC’s research findings into our methodology and comprehensive software platform to provide our customers with a streamlined approach for Best Practice Transfer,” added Holstine.   APQC studies on Best Practice Transfer have found: “organizations that used a systematic approach to Best Practice Transfer had a 10X level of results over other organizations.”   SigmaFlow is also working closely with AQPC membership needs in the areas of “Leveraging Knowledge across the Value Chain”, “Retaining Today’s Knowledge for Tomorrow’s Workforce”, and “Developing Communities of Practice to Drive Organizational Performance and Innovation”.    Utilizing APQC’s Process Classification Framework as the process hierarchy, the SigmaFlow Insights Knowledge Management solution enables process experts to capture  practices, tacit knowledge, and process measurements for benchmarking against the APQC database that contains over 1,200 performance metrics across multiple business functions with data from more than 7,000 organizations.

APQC is a member-based nonprofit research organization that provides services to organizations worldwide across all industries.   By continuously examining metric performance data, APQC provides businesses the hard numbers to bolster a business case and help determine a course of action.

As a leader in Business Process Intelligence, SigmaFlow combines methodology, industry and process management know-how for business process analysis, continuous improvement, and best practice transfer. 

SigmaFlow captures the core business processes and tacit knowledge of workers, and transfers process success factors across the enterprise. 

With its Software as a Services (SaaS) Cloud platform, SigmaFlow uniquely provides:  Template-based project portfolio management for faster realization of project results, Toolkits for process analysis and optimization, and analysis-ready Measurements to ensure process improvement gains are sustained.

For additional information, please contact:

Jim Henry
SigmaFlow
972-447-8340
jhenry@sigmaflow.com