Knowledge From Numbers?And People

What are these works? There's a couple of consultant reports, two major internal task force self studies—one with a rebuttal written by the previous management—a handful of business plans for new equipment acquisition and a half dozen other miscellaneous reports on this or that aspect of the department. The documents represent thousands of hours of work by dozens of people over the past dozen or so years. All in all, the pile of documents is about nine inches tall.