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Whitepapers
10 whitepapers from DataLion's practice: for institutes turning delivery into a product, for insights teams taking ownership of their studies, for methodologists, data-protection officers and universities. Each one is a PDF with worksheets and checklists, written by Benedikt Köhler, founder of DataLion. The download is free after a short registration.
Featured Institutes & agencies
The Reporting Factory
What delivering studies really costs, and how institutes turn delivery into a product
- The five recurring tasks that appear in no proposal and still cost every wave
- A worked example with stated assumptions: roughly 50 hours per tracker client per year
- A blank worksheet for costing your own delivery per client
Corporate insights teams
Agency data you cannot open
How insights teams take ownership of their studies: deliverables, a clause sheet and the research data stack
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Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams · BI & data teams
AI with survey data, GDPR-proof
What language models do well with survey data, where they fail, and how to approve them without data leaking out
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Hospitals & care
Patient Surveys Without the Agency
How hospitals and hospital groups survey patients, referrers and relatives themselves and analyse down to the ward
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Associations & chambers
The Business Climate Report as a Member Benefit
How associations and chambers get their business climate survey and member survey out of Excel and turn them into the case for the membership fee
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Manufacturers with dealer networks · Corporate insights teams
The Dealer Network as a Dataset
DSI, CSI and the reporting cascade: how manufacturers measure their sales network down to the outlet
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Utilities & energy suppliers
The Customer Monitor as a Sales Instrument
How municipal utilities and regional suppliers use their customer survey, image study and heat-planning citizen survey for the board and for sales at the same time
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Product & UX teams · Corporate insights teams
Product Research with Research Methods
SUS, UEQ, MaxDiff, Van Westendorp and product-market fit: the guide for product and UX teams that need more than a response distribution
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Institutes & agencies · Corporate insights teams
MaxDiff, Conjoint, Driver Analysis
Which method carries which decision, how much sample it needs, and where studies go wrong
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Universities · Institutes & agencies
When the survey tool expires: the migration guide
Secure the data, choose a successor, protect work in progress: a plan for universities and institutes through December 2026
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