Research

Research areas

Our research comes from patents, journal papers and large enterprise projects, and falls into six themes. Each sits where people, team, organization and business data meet.

RA-01

Business Performance PredictionStructured + unstructured data

Combines structured data such as financial statements and management indicators with unstructured data such as meeting minutes, reports, surveys and online articles to predict company performance, then maps the results to business indicators on predefined statistical fields.

KEY TOPICS
  • Structured + unstructured integration
  • Text mining · BOW vectorization
  • CART ensemble prediction
  • Indicator mapping · dashboards

BasisUS 12,591,902 B2 · KR 10-2573799

RA-02

People & Talent AnalyticsHiring · selection · placement

Applies machine learning to the assessment, interview and evaluation data behind hiring, promotion and placement decisions to predict job fit and growth potential. Text such as cover letters and interview notes is part of the analysis.

KEY TOPICS
  • Hiring & placement prediction
  • Recruitment text analytics
  • Competency dictionary matching
  • Key talent · competency gaps
  • Org-unit & demographic analysis

BasisHyundai Motor HR Analytics ML R&D; recruitment text analytics

RA-03

Assessment SciencePsychometrics & scale development

Defines measurable criteria through competency modeling, then statistically tests the factor structure, reliability and validity of leadership, team and personality assessments. Korean industry norm scores allow relative comparison.

KEY TOPICS
  • Shared Mental Model (SMM) scale
  • 360° leadership assessment
  • Big5 · NEO-PI-3
  • Norm-referenced scores

BasisKJIOP 39(2), n = 5,137; Journal of Creativity and Innovation 19(3)

RA-04

Culture, Safety & ComplianceOrganizational risk analytics

Designs indices for organizational culture, ways of working, safety culture and compliance sensitivity, and measures them across large multinational organizations, analyzing results by unit, level and region over time.

KEY TOPICS
  • Work Smart Index (WSI)
  • Safety Culture Index
  • Compliance sensitivity
  • Employee experience

BasisWSI for 100,000 staff in 200 subsidiaries; safety culture for 40,000

RA-05

Assessment IntelligenceGenerative AI feedback & coaching (GAX)

Rather than fine-tuning models on client HR data, we structure each person's actual results, competency hierarchy and interpretation rules and give them to the AI as context. Results turn into conversational feedback and action plans.

KEY TOPICS
  • Competency hierarchy reconstruction
  • Context engineering
  • Inference control rules
  • GROW coaching
  • AI coaching agents

BasisGAX architecture, AI One-Flow; AI coaching agents for Hyundai Capital and Shinsegae Group

RA-06

AX & Project AnalyticsAI transformation & project management

Diagnoses the current state of people, teams, organizations and work, turns the findings into priorities and designs AI transformation plans. Also studies PM AI competency, project outcome indicators and AI project frameworks such as CPMAI.

KEY TOPICS
  • AX readiness assessment
  • PM AI competency indicators
  • Agile-CPMAI · PMBOK 8
  • 7-layer reality diagnosis
  • StratEdge strategy AI

BasisIPMA 2026, ProjMAN 2026, Procedia CS 2026, SNU AI4PM

Research Assets

Assessment instruments behind our data

Standard assessments run on the Global Assess platform are DAL's primary data source. They let us follow the same people and organizations over time at individual, team and organization level.

Personal
LCI 360°
360° leader competency · AMA model · 10+ years of norm data
LRC
4 leadership types · 8 roles
NEO-PI Big5
Five-factor personality · hiring · development
L. Competency 360
Common, leadership & task competencies (2026)
PTI · Caliper · EQ-i
Psychological type · job potential · emotional intelligence
Team
ACE
Awakening · Communication · Execution (SMM-based)
TPI
Drivers and barriers of team performance
TEP
Goal attainment · member engagement
8BA
8 high-performance team behavior norms
Organization
Denison
Mission · consistency · involvement · adaptability
E-SPEC
E = ƒ(Strategy · Process · Employee · Culture)
OHD
Organizational health · growing pains
WSI
Work · People · Infra (work smart)
EX
Physical, cultural & technological employee experience
Methodologies

Methods

We connect psychometrics, statistical modeling, machine learning and generative AI in one analytics pipeline.

Statistics & psychometrics

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • ESEM
  • Item Response Theory
  • Multi-group Path Analysis
  • Norm-referenced Scoring
  • Multi-rater 360° Feedback

Machine learning

  • Ensemble Learning (CART · Boosting)
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Feature Scaling
  • Time-series Analysis

Text & language

  • Text Mining
  • Feature Vectorization (BOW)
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Keyword Dictionary Matching

Generative AI

  • LLM Context Engineering
  • Competency Hierarchy Grounding
  • AI Coaching Agents
  • Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Performance prediction pipeline (from the patent claims)

STEP 1 · COLLECT

Collect

Internal (financials, KPIs, minutes, surveys, assessments) and external (articles, papers, patents, communities) data

STEP 2 · CLASSIFY

Classify

Split into structured and unstructured data

STEP 3 · STRUCTURE

Structure

Cleaning, tokenizing, word extraction and integer encoding turn text into structured data

STEP 4 · FEATURE

Extract features

Frequency-weighted vectorization, then rescaling and standard normalization

STEP 5 · PREDICT

Predict & map

An ensemble model predicts performance and maps indicators to statistical fields

Applied Framework · AX Consulting

Seven connected stages, from assessment to verified value

  1. AssessReality Map
  2. AwarenessAX Target
  3. Strategy AIRoadmap
  4. Role & CapabilityNew Roles
  5. Customized BuildAI Build
  6. ActionNew Workflow
  7. Continuous AnalyticsValue

Gate 1 (4 weeks): value, owner and data are ready → Gate 2 (4 months): less work at the same quality → Gate 3 (8 months): operations and economics hold at scale