Research library

Research for better
decisions.

Each topic brings together four perspectives: general, academic, practitioner and decision-maker. Start with the shared synthesis, compare the findings and open the original reports as needed.

Research library
16 topics · 64 reports

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16 topics

Sustained use of generative AI in organizations

Conditions for sustained generative AI use: integration into work, support for people, rules, operations and evaluation. A synthesis of four reports comparing conclusions and evidence limits.

  • AI adoption
  • Workflows
  • Measuring benefits
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Working memory for individuals and small teams

What to keep, how to distinguish evidence from decisions and tasks, and when maintaining a knowledge system costs more effort than it saves. Four perspectives on using a Second Brain.

  • Second Brain
  • Knowledge work
  • Handoffs
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Reliable AI analysis of company data

From a question through metric definitions and SQL to an explanation of the result. Four reports on verification, permissions and the limits of self-service analytics.

  • AI analytics
  • SQL
  • Metric definitions
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AI in data engineering

SQL and code generation, tests, pipeline changes and production work. What programming studies establish and what needs verification in data operations.

  • Data engineering
  • Testing
  • Autonomy
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Work, skills and roles in data teams using AI

What to measure at team level, how to assign responsibility and how to preserve the ability to verify results. Four perspectives on data teams working with AI.

  • Data teams
  • Skills
  • Result verification
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Capturing information without another inbox

When to route a commitment directly to the task system, what can remain temporary, and how to tell whether capture merely postpones work.

  • Information capture
  • Tasks
  • Knowledge work
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RAG over analytical documentation

When document retrieval helps and when an exact catalog lookup is needed. Versions, permissions, citations and answer testing.

  • RAG
  • Analytical documentation
  • Metric definitions
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Data quality for an analytical AI assistant

Separating incomplete data, duplicates, metric-definition changes and query errors. Verify one answer path instead of demanding a perfect warehouse.

  • Data quality
  • Data warehouses
  • Analytics
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Retries, duplicates and idempotency

Lost responses, business-operation identity and the limits of exactly-once guarantees. When to retry, reconcile state or involve an owner.

  • Idempotency
  • Retries
  • Integrations
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