Scientifically valid & user-friendly.
1000Minds decision-support software is internationally recognised for its scientific validity and user-friendliness.
When we won a 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.”
Invented by Franz Ombler and Paul Hansen, 1000Minds grew out of research started in the 1990s at the University of Otago in New Zealand into methods for prioritising patients for elective surgery.
Our research developed into a new approach to the universal problem (in a wide range of applications) of how to combine alternatives’ characteristics on multiple criteria in order to rank the alternatives. In other words, 1000Minds is a new approach to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Conjoint Analysis.
1000Minds applies our patented PAPRIKA (Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives) method. For an introduction read the Wikipedia article, and for technical details refer to our scientific article mentioned at our researchers page.
We would argue – and our clients and the judges of several innovation awards agree – that the PAPRIKA method is more valid and reliable than alternative methods. Notwithstanding its technical sophistication, 1000Minds is very intuitive and user-friendly.
In addition, working with users, we developed customisable processes to include potentially 10s or 100s (even 1000s!) of decision-makers or stakeholders in a variety of decision-making activities.
We also created tools to enable decision-makers to consider, when appropriate, alternatives’ ‘value for money’ and allocate budgets (in addition to ranking alternatives and revealing decision-makers’ preferences) – see what does 1000Minds do?
In 2003, we formed our company, 1000Minds Ltd, to support our ongoing development programme and ensure the long-term availability and support of our software. Since then we’ve won or made the finals of seven innovation awards and been in the news a lot.
We’re based in Dunedin and Wellington, New Zealand, from where we work with a growing number of clients, partners and researchers worldwide.