https://www.1000minds.com/
Software to support decision-making, prioritisation, value for money, conjoint analysis and group decision-making
1000Minds is for when good decisions matter.
Consensus Software Award (sponsored by IBM and Microsoft), the judges said:
“In removing complexity and uncertainty from decision-making processes, 1000Minds has blended an innovative algorithm with a simple user interface to produce a tool of great power and sheer elegance.”
1000Minds is fast and scaleable. No extra analysis is needed to derive decision-making outputs. Depending on your application, 1000Minds can as easily survey 100s or 1000s of people as (say) 10.
1000Minds has a range of demo ‘decision models’ as possible templates to work from or the ability to build a unique model from scratch.
Free trial, including access to demo models.
Types of uses:
Business administration, general
- Ranking new product ideas for further development
- Selecting a new office location
- Prioritizing business projects and allocating a budget
ICT
- Prioritizing design improvements for online software
- Selecting IT equipment vendors
- Prioritizing ICT projects and allocating a budget
Procurement and tendering
- Short-listing supplier proposals from a RFP / tender
Local and central government, general
- Allocating business development grants
- Points System to determine planning notifications
- Assessing value for money of government programmes
- Allocating a budget for city council or local government
- Ranking council residential properties for disposal (sale)
Social services
- Points System to allocate social-care assistance to people in need
Education
- Awarding student scholarships
- Short-listing applicants for university professorship
- Short-listing candidates to be business school dean
- Selecting students for medical school
- University academic staff promotions
- Judging an essay-writing competition
- Competency modeling – What makes a good school teacher?
The Arts
- Allocating arts funding for theater projects
- Judging entries in a film-making competition
- Best Actress Award
- Best Theatrical Production Award
- Best Director Award
Development aid and disaster recovery
- Allocating funds for a microfinance programme
- Prioritizing projects and allocating a budget for aid agency
- Prioritizing regions for immediate help after a natural disaster
Research funding
- Points System to allocate NZ Marsden Research Fund
- Selecting funding applications for science & innovation funder
- Selecting funding applications for medical research funder
- Selecting research proposals and allocating grant funds (general)
Conjoint analysis and marketing research
- What do people look for in household energy saving options?
- Surveying citizen preferences for water & wastewater services
- Community preferences towards a proposed cement factory
- Consumer conjoint analysis for a flavoured milk product
- Choosing a home to buy or rent
- Choosing a new road bike (bicycle)
- Choosing an engagement ring
- Choosing a new refrigerator
- Choosing a stand-up paddle board (SUP)
- Choosing a city to move to
- Choosing a luxury car
Finance and venture capital
- Allocating business development grants
- Short-listing company shares to invest in
- Competency modeling – What makes a good hedge fund team?
- Selecting start-ups for VC or Angel Investor
- Credit scoring – Which loan applicant is least risky?
- Allocating funds for a microfinance programme
Human resource management, general
- Short-listing job applicants
- Short-listing candidates for CEO or senior position
- Competency modeling – What makes a good hedge fund team?
- Competency modeling – What make a good school teacher?
Immigration
- Points System, “Immigrate to Canada – Skilled worker”
- Points System, “New Zealand Skilled Migrant Category”
Insurance and legal
- Points System to detect insurance fraud
- Prioritizing legal disputes based on their seriousness
Fire service, police and security
- Points System to prioritize Police responses to incidents
- Points System to identify terrorist suspects or threats
- Prioritizing projects for Fire Service and allocating a budget
Resource management
- Points System to determine planning notifications
- Points System to assess water-body environmental impacts
Infrastructure
- Surveying citizen preferences for water & wastewater services
- Prioritizing traffic congestion solutions and allocating a budget
- Selecting sludge-disposal method for a sewerage system
- Prioritizing water supply projects and allocating a budget
Energy
- What do people look for in household energy saving options?
- Selecting options for reliable supply of electricity to city
- Selecting wind farm designs
- Selecting sites for offshore wind-turbine farm
- Ranking alternative energy sources
Climate change
- Selecting geo-engineering solutions to climate change
- Ranking alternative energy sources
Building projects
- Deciding how to create more space for a crowded building
- Deciding how to upgrade heating and ventilation for a building
- Deciding how to increase reader space for university library
Design
- Prioritizing family car designs
- Ranking new product ideas for further development
- Prioritizing design improvements for online software
- Selecting wind farm designs
- Ranking designs, applying Alberto Alessi’s “formula for success”
- Ranking satellite designs
Real estate
- Choosing a home to buy or rent
- Choosing a university flat (shared accommodation)
- Selecting a new office location
Charities and not-for-profits
- Allocating funds for a microfinance programme
- Allocating investment funds for a charitable foundation
Patient prioritization
- Points System to prioritize patients for general surgery
- Points System to prioritize a population for Tamiflu
- Points System to prioritize patients for CABG heart surgery
- Points System to prioritize patients for bariatric surgery
- Points System to prioritize dental extractions
- Points System to prioritize adult patients for kidney transplants
Health technology prioritisation
- Health technology prioritisation 1 (generic benefits instead of QALYs)
- Health technology prioritisation 2 (health benefits in aggregate QALYs)
Health-related quality of life
- Creating EQ-5D-5L value set
- Creating EQ-5D-3L value set
Health, miscellaneous
- Points System to predict or screen for diabetes risk
- Helping a diabetic patient with the decision to amputate leg
- Prioritizing projects for a hospital and allocating a budget
Competition judging
- Judging entries in a film-making competition
- Judging entries in entrepreneurship business plan competition
- Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- Judging an essay-writing competition
- Judging entries in a film-making competition
- Best Actress Award
- Best Theatrical Production Award
- Best Director Award
Sport
- Selecting basketball players in draft
- Identifying bowlers with ability to be world class
- Picking mid-court players for a netball team
- Choosing a new road bike (bicycle)
- Selecting wide receivers in NFL Draft
- Predicting winner of FIFA World Cup