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QPI Case Drafts: Year-End Review Research Function

status: draft_owner_review_needed

source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

source_note: Owner-provided raw organizational material. These drafts are anonymized and generalized for QPI review. Real or potentially identifying people, departments, institutions, timestamps, locations, titles, ancient-style cognitive anchors, exact numeric details, and sensitive operational details have been removed or generalized. These drafts are not selector JSON, regression cases, or owner-approved calibration data.

anonymization_note: People are represented as roles such as decision_maker, execution_lead, research_staff, compliance_staff, and frontline_staff. The organization is represented as the organization; the department is represented as research_function. Sensitive details are generalized as tax-preference metric pressure, research identity simulation, paper-and-patent metric pressure, talent-role mismatch, resource allocation bottleneck, facility capacity risk, and compliance red-line risk.

Case qpi-draft-001: Tax-Preference Goal Becomes Research Identity Simulation

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that the organization wants to qualify for an external preferential status that requires a credible research identity.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization as framed by decision_maker and translated through research_function and related administrative functions. It is not a neutral learner asking how the policy works; it is an accountable organization under financial pressure, attempting to turn an external status requirement into an internal reporting strategy.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears in a year-end review of a research_function. The function is expected to support external certification, research metrics, and organizational reputation, while the actual operating base is more commercial and administrative than research-intensive.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: The organization expects to obtain a preferential external status by assembling research-related indicators and evidence.
• Reality: The underlying research capacity is not strong enough to naturally support the desired identity, so the organization considers simulating research attributes through administrative reclassification and transactional evidence.
• Gap summary: A capability-building problem is reframed as an evidence-packaging and accounting problem.

5. Attempted Paths

The apparent path is to make existing people, expenses, and intangible assets appear research-related enough to satisfy the external gate. This avoids building real research capability but increases compliance red-line risk and audit fragility.

6. Dynamic Shift

P -> I. It begins as a Problem about how to meet an external qualification requirement. It shifts into an Issue because the chosen path changes the organization's relationship to truthfulness, legal exposure, research identity, and long-term legitimacy.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: low
• path_or_resource_scarcity: high
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

intra_frame_mixed

For the same organizational subject, the case has both a resource/path gap and a governance gap. The organization lacks sufficient real research capacity, and the proposed workaround undermines the legitimacy of the reported identity.

9. Governance Load

Very high. The case requires managing audit authenticity, compliance boundaries, financial pressure, research identity, and whether short-term certification gain is worth long-term institutional risk.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• tool_solutionism
• premature_classification
• single-cause_reduction

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: subject_contextual
• is_provisional: true
• classification: issue
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Treat the case as a governance Issue with a path/resource trigger; separate legitimate capability-building paths from evidence simulation and compliance red-line risk.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this be the umbrella QPI case for the source, or should it remain a narrower certification-risk sample?
• Should classification be issue or mixed given the strong path/resource shortage behind the governance failure?
• Is the anonymized phrase research identity simulation acceptable, or should it be softened further?

Case qpi-draft-002: Research Staff Count Treated As Movable Accounting Data

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that the organization lacks enough research-qualified personnel or research-related cost evidence to satisfy an external metric.

2. Subject Position

The subject is decision_maker using administrative authority to force metric completion, with research_function, finance, and personnel-related roles expected to make the numbers fit. A system analyst would see the same situation as a boundary and legitimacy problem rather than a simple data-filling task.

3. Scenario Context

The case occurs inside a certification and reporting context where staff identity, payroll category, and research contribution are treated as adjustable inputs to a metric package.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: Staff and cost categories can be rearranged to make the organization appear research-intensive.
• Reality: Research identity depends on actual work, role, capability, and evidence. Moving labels without changing reality creates a fragile and potentially noncompliant data package.
• Gap summary: A real capability shortage is violently reduced to category manipulation.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to reassign or relabel non-research roles into research-related categories. This may reduce a reported data gap but creates a truthfulness gap and escalates audit risk.

6. Dynamic Shift

Q/P -> I. It may first appear as a Question about what the metric requires or a Problem about how to satisfy it. With context, it becomes an Issue because the organization is changing the meaning of "research personnel" to survive the metric.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: low
• path_or_resource_scarcity: high
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

inter_viewpoint_divergence

From decision_maker, the case may look like an execution Problem: adjust the table. From a compliance or research-quality viewpoint, it is an Issue about role truthfulness and institutional integrity.

9. Governance Load

High. The organization needs rules for role classification, evidence authenticity, refusal boundaries, and escalation when a metric request conflicts with real work identity.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• tool_solutionism
• premature_classification
• single-cause_reduction

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: multi_perspective
• is_provisional: true
• classification: issue
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Use this as a QPI sample for distinguishing missing data from falsified or untrusted data; ask the owner whether the case should explicitly mark "data completeness is not truthfulness."

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this case be classified as inter_viewpoint_divergence because different roles see different frames, or intra_frame_mixed because both resource and governance scarcities exist?
• Is the main misframing violent_reduction from research capability to spreadsheet category?
• Should this sample later test QPI's ability to reject high-confidence classification when compliance details are not owner-verified?

Case qpi-draft-003: Transactional Research Assets Create Audit Fragility

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that the organization needs enough research outputs or transferable assets to support its external status and metrics.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the research_function under decision_maker pressure. The function is expected to manufacture evidence for an identity it may not substantively possess. External auditors, regulators, and future organizational actors are proxy stakeholders.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears where research outputs are discussed less as knowledge production and more as objects that can be transacted, reported, or recycled to satisfy rules.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: The organization can close the research-output gap by acquiring or circulating research-like assets.
• Reality: If the transaction has weak substantive value, it may create formal evidence while increasing audit fragility and institutional risk.
• Gap summary: The organization treats research evidence as a tradable token rather than as a trace of real capability.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to use asset transactions or paper evidence to create the appearance of research output. The method may satisfy a surface indicator while leaving the capability gap unresolved.

6. Dynamic Shift

P -> I. It starts as a Problem about acquiring enough evidence. It becomes an Issue because the evidence path itself changes the organization's risk profile and value system.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: medium
• path_or_resource_scarcity: high
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

intra_frame_mixed

The same subject has insufficient real output and a governance conflict over whether synthetic evidence should be accepted. The path scarcity and order scarcity reinforce each other.

9. Governance Load

Very high. The case requires deciding what counts as authentic evidence, what transaction patterns are prohibited, who can refuse risky actions, and how audit traces should be preserved.

10. Misframing Risks

• tool_solutionism
• violent_reduction
• premature_classification

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: subject_contextual
• is_provisional: true
• classification: mixed
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Treat the case as a P/I mixed sample where the immediate path gap is dominated by evidence authenticity and compliance governance.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this be merged with Case 001 as a subcase of research identity simulation?
• Should the dominant scarcity be path_resource because the organization lacks real assets, or consensus_order because the chosen route is illegitimate?
• Is this anonymized enough, or should all references to transactional research assets be further abstracted?

Case qpi-draft-004: Ranking Anxiety Converts Research Into Purchasable Metrics

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that external ranking or reputation indicators are declining or under pressure, and the organization wants quick visible improvement.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization under metric pressure. decision_maker cares about external visibility and market effects; research_function is asked to deliver measurable outputs; research_staff and external collaborators become instruments of metric production.

3. Scenario Context

The case occurs in a review of research performance where publications, projects, and recognitions are treated primarily as ranking inputs rather than as outcomes of genuine inquiry.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: Increasing reported outputs should improve reputation, ranking, and market appeal.
• Reality: If the output is produced mainly through transactional or low-authenticity mechanisms, the organization may improve the metric while degrading research culture and long-term credibility.
• Gap summary: A reputation problem is reframed as a purchasable output problem, hiding the value-system failure.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to reward or purchase visible research outputs without resolving underlying capability, research culture, or quality-control constraints.

6. Dynamic Shift

P -> I. At first it looks like a Problem of improving ranking inputs. It becomes an Issue when the optimization logic corrupts the meaning of research and creates future trust risk.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: medium
• path_or_resource_scarcity: medium
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

inter_viewpoint_divergence

decision_maker may frame the case as a metric execution problem. research_staff may experience it as a value and incentive issue. A system analyst sees a governance problem where metrics replace mission.

9. Governance Load

High. The case requires ongoing tradeoffs among ranking pressure, research authenticity, incentive design, quality control, and reputational exposure.

10. Misframing Risks

• malicious_inflation
• violent_reduction
• tool_solutionism
• premature_classification

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: multi_perspective
• is_provisional: true
• classification: issue
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Use this as a QPI sample for "metric improvement is not the same as capability improvement"; ask the owner whether later calibration should route this to governance review rather than execution planning.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this be a strong sample for malicious_inflation, where an ordinary metric problem is inflated into a legitimacy narrative to justify risky action?
• Or is the stronger risk violent_reduction, where research value is reduced to ranking inputs?
• Should this case later connect to selector traps around "how to improve ranking quickly"?

Case qpi-draft-005: High-Level Talent Becomes Role-Mismatched Display Asset

status: draft_owner_review_needed

source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that the organization has recruited high-level talent but struggles to place that talent into suitable teaching, research, or operational roles.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization as employer and capability builder. decision_maker views talent as proof of quality and as a metric asset. The recruited expert is a proxy stakeholder whose professional identity, motivation, and retention risk matter.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears in a research and staffing review where expert credentials are valuable for external appearance, but internal course design, research platform, or task structure cannot absorb the expert's actual capability.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: High-level talent should strengthen research status, teaching quality, and external metrics.
• Reality: The organization lacks appropriate work design, so the talent is assigned generic or mismatched tasks that waste capability and weaken long-term retention.
• Gap summary: Talent acquisition solves a credential problem while creating a role-fit and capability-utilization problem.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to keep the talent by creating broad, low-specificity assignments that are easier to schedule but misaligned with the person's expertise. This preserves the visible asset while degrading its productive value.

6. Dynamic Shift

P -> I. It starts as a Problem of how to arrange work for a high-level hire. It becomes an Issue because the organization treats human capability as a display asset, creating retention, morale, and mission-integrity risks.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: low
• path_or_resource_scarcity: high
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

intra_frame_mixed

The same organization lacks an execution path for using expert capability and also has a governance conflict over whether talent is valued as capability or as an indicator.

9. Governance Load

High. The case requires balancing credential needs, real capability use, task design, professional dignity, retention risk, and whether the organization is willing to build the platform needed for talent to matter.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• single-cause_reduction
• premature_classification

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: subject_contextual
• is_provisional: true
• classification: mixed
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Frame the case as a role-governance Issue with a work-design Problem inside it; ask whether the QPI output should explicitly mark talent-as-indicator reduction.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this case be promoted as a separate QPI calibration sample or kept as a subcase of metric-driven research identity?
• Is dominant_scarcity: consensus_order correct, or should path_resource dominate because the immediate blocker is work design?
• Should future case digest include proxy stakeholder high_level_talent?

Case qpi-draft-006: Facility Capacity Risk Misread As Expansion Logistics

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that a growing program or external-facing activity needs more physical capacity than the organization currently has.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization under growth pressure. decision_maker prioritizes expansion and revenue; execution_lead must find space; affected staff and users are proxy stakeholders who bear the consequences of compression.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears in a year-end review where growth has already been promised or pursued, while physical capacity and operational readiness lag behind.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: The organization can absorb expanded activity by reallocating existing space or forcing internal adjustments.
• Reality: Physical capacity is a hard constraint. Improvised reallocation may damage teaching, work continuity, user experience, safety, and trust.
• Gap summary: A capacity planning failure is treated as a short-term logistics task.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to squeeze or repurpose existing space rather than slow expansion or invest in capacity. This may solve the immediate placement problem but transfer cost to other functions and future stability.

6. Dynamic Shift

P -> I. It begins as a Problem of finding enough physical space. It becomes an Issue when growth promises, resource allocation, user rights, staff disruption, and reputational risk collide.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: low
• path_or_resource_scarcity: high
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: medium

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

intra_frame_mixed

The same organizational frame contains a hard resource shortage and a governance burden. The path scarcity is dominant, but the way the shortage is handled creates order and legitimacy risks.

9. Governance Load

High. The case requires capacity governance, expansion pacing, risk communication, user protection, and whether revenue growth can override physical readiness.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• premature_classification
• single-cause_reduction

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: subject_contextual
• is_provisional: true
• classification: mixed
• dominant_scarcity: path_resource
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Treat as a P/I mixed case; first verify physical capacity and committed obligations, then decide whether expansion should be capped, delayed, or redesigned.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this case be classified as problem because resource scarcity dominates, or mixed because downstream governance risk is already visible?
• Should it be used as a calibration sample for "hard constraint cannot be solved by administrative command"?
• Is the growth context anonymized enough, or should all references to external-facing activity be made more generic?

Case qpi-draft-007: Safety Responsibility Vacuum Covered By Emergency Command

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source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is that a safety-related task needs immediate ownership and completion.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization as an operating system. decision_maker can issue emergency commands, but the real subject includes the missing responsibility chain, affected users, and downstream risk owners.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears in a meeting where responsibility for a safety-related administrative action is unclear until a top-down directive assigns it under time pressure.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: Safety tasks should have a clear owner, process, evidence trail, and escalation route.
• Reality: The responsibility chain is unclear, and the gap is patched through emergency personal assignment rather than through a stable process.
• Gap summary: A process and accountability failure is temporarily hidden by command authority.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to assign a person under urgent deadline pressure. This may produce a short-term action but does not solve the underlying absence of stable responsibility architecture.

6. Dynamic Shift

Q/P -> I. It could look like a Question of "who handles this?" or a Problem of task completion. With context, it becomes an Issue about accountability design, safety governance, and command-dependent operations.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: medium
• path_or_resource_scarcity: medium
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

intra_frame_mixed

The same organizational subject has a data gap about responsibility, a path gap about execution, and a dominant governance gap about safety accountability.

9. Governance Load

High. The case requires responsibility mapping, documented ownership, escalation rules, safety evidence, and prevention of repeat emergency command substitution.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• premature_classification
• single-cause_reduction

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: subject_contextual
• is_provisional: true
• classification: issue
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Route as an Issue: identify the missing responsibility chain before treating it as an isolated task execution problem.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this case be included despite being a smaller slice than the research and compliance cases?
• Is this a useful QPI sample for "Q-like responsibility question that is actually an accountability Issue"?
• Should safety details be further generalized for publication safety?

Case qpi-draft-008: Compliance Risk Defined Only By Immediate Penalty

status: draft_owner_review_needed

source_path: [redacted external source path: owner-provided organizational CT slice]

1. Surface Problem

The surface problem is whether a past or ongoing compliance-sensitive behavior creates meaningful risk for the organization.

2. Subject Position

The subject is the organization as interpreted by compliance_staff, research_function, and decision_maker. The viewpoint is not a legal conclusion; it is an internal risk frame that may underestimate non-financial, reputational, and ethical exposure.

3. Scenario Context

The case appears where internal actors assess external scrutiny through the narrow lens of whether immediate penalties, reimbursement issues, or formal interviews have occurred.

4. Expectation-Reality Gap

• Expected: If no immediate penalty or visible sanction occurs, the organization can treat the behavior as low-risk or resolved.
• Reality: Compliance and academic integrity risks can persist even without immediate financial loss or official sanction. The absence of punishment is not the same as the presence of legitimacy.
• Gap summary: The organization collapses substantive compliance into short-term penalty avoidance.

5. Attempted Paths

The attempted path is to benchmark against whether other institutions or actors were formally sanctioned and to use the lack of immediate punishment as proof of acceptability. This converts compliance into a minimum-punishment game.

6. Dynamic Shift

Q -> I. It starts as a Question about whether a behavior caused formal risk. It becomes an Issue because the organization's definition of risk is miscalibrated and may normalize future boundary crossing.

7. Scarcity Profile

• data_scarcity: medium
• path_or_resource_scarcity: low
• consensus_or_order_scarcity: high

8. Mixed Or Multi-Perspective

inter_viewpoint_divergence

Internal actors may classify the situation as a Question about penalty status. A governance or integrity frame classifies it as an Issue about what counts as acceptable behavior.

9. Governance Load

High. The case requires redefining compliance beyond immediate punishment, creating review standards, and preventing "not caught yet" from becoming the organization's operating rule.

10. Misframing Risks

• violent_reduction
• single-cause_reduction
• premature_classification

11. Candidate QPI Judgment

• classification_scope: multi_perspective
• is_provisional: true
• classification: issue
• dominant_scarcity: consensus_order
• classification_confidence: medium
• recommended_next_step: Treat as an Issue about compliance-risk framing; request owner confirmation before using it as a calibration sample because legal interpretation must remain generalized.

12. Owner Review Questions

• Should this be kept as a separate QPI sample or folded into the broader metric-and-compliance culture case?
• Should the candidate judgment emphasize inter_viewpoint_divergence between penalty-status and integrity-status frames?
• Is the legal-risk language sufficiently generalized?