A powerful research tool.

• C Beyer, J Eunice, B Gill, F Goeltzer, L Meisner, A Ritterling, A Yapor & R Zenetti, “MBA program priorities: Tuition, scheduling and executive treatment”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2011

• M Sellers, T Oliveira, & S Giebel, “Ranking priorities for the storm chaser equipment market”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2011

• R Belew, “Top traits of a NFL franchise quarterback prospect”, research project, Intermediate Microeconomics, 2011

• K Wittek & R Cudd, “How do college-aged females rank the dating characteristics of college-aged males?”, research project, Intermediate Microeconomics, 2011

• A Hebecker, P Hutny & M Tischner, “Using conjoint analysis to measure the tuition sensitivity of MBA students”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2010

• T Byrd, A Knicely & A Serna, “Consumer preferences of cell phone pricing”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2010

• B Burke & C Mauritz, “User preferences and changes in University Library opening and closing times”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2009

• A Gartin, B Schleich & P Ecken, “A conjoint analysis of travel-agency customer preferences for Caribbean vacation packages”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2009

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Croatia University of Zagreb

• A Kramo, “Customers’ pricing decisions and future profit planning”, MBA, 2009

Danish Technological Institute / University of Southern Denmark

• L Dalgaard, “Rational system-level design methodology for autonomous robotic systems”, PhD (Computer Science), 2011

De Montfort University

• S Schlick, “Linking competitor intelligence with Strategic Decision-Making (SDM) through Decision Support Systems (DSS)”, PhD, 2011-

Dunedin City Council

• A Christofferson, “Housing choice in Dunedin”, City Planning, District Plan Monitoring Series, Research Report 2007/1, Dunedin City Council, 2007

Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena

• J Ruhland (2006), “Strategic mobilization: What strategic management can learn from social movement research”, Management 11, 23-31

• S Freund, “Kundenbewertung im strategischen issue management”, PhD (Marketing), 2006

• S Freund, “Measuring medium-term customer value through conjoint analysis”, 2005

The Gertner Institute / Israel Ministry of Health

• O Golan, P Hansen, G Kaplan & O Tal (2011), “Health technology prioritisation: Which criteria for prioritising new technologies and what are their relative weights?” Health Policy 102, 126-35

• O Golan, “A decision-support tool for prioritization of new health technologies: The ‘Value for Money’ Chart”, 8^th Annual Health Policy Conference, Israel, 2010

• O Golan & P Hansen, “A new decision-support framework for prioritization of new health technologies: the ‘Value for Money’ Chart”, 8^th Biennial Conference of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care, Boston, 2010

• O Tal & O Golan, “Criteria for priority setting in health – Are there universal criteria for allocating resources for publicly funded healthcare?”, 7^th Annual Health Policy Conference, Tel Aviv, 2008

Goethe University Frankfurt

• T Degenhardt, J Schröder, E Marcillat & L Goerigk, “Improvement of decision making in industrial procurement and sales processes”, MBA Global Consulting Project, 2011

International Institute of Information Technology / Utrecht University

• S Aggarwal & H Van Oostendorp, “An attempt to automate the process of Source Evaluation”, International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering, Trivandrum, 2011, ACE Proceedings 2011, 49-51

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

• P Boyd, C Law & S Doney (2011), “Commentary: A climate change atlas for the ocean” Oceanography 24, 13-16

New Zealand Ministry of Health

• P Hansen, A Hendry, R Naden, F Ombler, R Stewart (2012), “A new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services”, Clinical Governance: An International Journal (in press).

Also: A Barber, P Hansen, R Naden, F Ombler, R Stewart (2011), “Who’s next? A new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services”, Economics Discussion Papers No. 1104, University of Otago

• R Naden, A Barber, R Paterson et al. “Assigning clinical priority: A systematic methodology”, 6^th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care, Toronto, 2006

• A Barber, F Doolan Noble, R Stewart, G Wilkins, R Naden & D North. “Prioritisation for coronary artery bypass surgery: Can the process be improved?”, 5^th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care, Wellington, 2004

Office of Health Economics

• N Devlin & J Sussex, “Incorporating multiple criteria in HTA. Methods and processes”, OHE Report, March 2011

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

• D Masri, W Assa'd & H Shabrouq, “Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm for 4G networks”, BSc, Telecommunications Engineering project, 2011

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

• C Smith (2009), “Revealing monetary policy preferences”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper Series DP2009/01

The Royal Society of New Zealand

• P Boyd & F Ombler, “Scientific, technological and geopolitical aspects of geo-engineering schemes: Implications for New Zealand”, Interactive Workshop, The Royal Society of New Zealand, 2011 (news)

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

• Y Sarig, I Priel, O Pliskin & E Hayun, “Zion 2 – Surveillance satellite project management”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

• A Shteinman, “Green Fleet – electric vehicles fleet”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

• D Feinstein, “Developing an atmospheric modeling system”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

• H Peleg, E Birenbaum, H Aharonov & A Kostianovsky, “Delek Green – residential solar electric power system”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

• L Roditi, “Generic sonar simulator”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

• Z Bareket, L Dgany & B Dveer, “Green Car – ‘green’ alternatives for gasoline cars”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

• R Benito, "Evaluation of the viability of implementing a Wildlife Management Unit in the La Joya watershed in Querétaro, México”, Master of Integrated Watershed Management, 2011-

Universidad de Buenos Aires / CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences

• P Graff & S McIntyre, “Selecting species for restoration of biodiversity in degraded landscapes”, Research project, 2010-

The University of Auckland / Green Lane Cardiovascular Service

• RAH Stewart, A Barber, A Hamer et al, “Comparison of a clinical score with individual clinician judgement for assigning priority for heart valve surgery”, European Society of Cardiology Congress, Stockholm, 2010

University of Calgary / Alberta Health Services / Western Canada Waiting List Project

• A Fitzgerald, C De Coster, S McMillan et al. (2011), “Relative urgency for referral from primary care to rheumatologists: The priority referral score”, Arthritis Care & Research 63, 231-39

• A Fitzgerald, B Conner Spady, C De Coster, R Naden, GA Hawker & T Noseworthy (2009), “WCWL Rheumatology Priority Referral Score reliability and validity testing”, abstract, The 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting, Arthritis & Rheumatology 60 Suppl 10, 54

• T Nosewothy, C De Coster & R Naden (2009), “Priority-setting tools for improving access to medical specialists”, poster presentation, 6^th Health Technology Assessment International Annual Meeting, Singapore, 2009, Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore 38, S78

• C De Coster & T Noseworthy, “Improving wait times in the referral-consultation process: WCWL priority referral scores”, Taming of the Queue VI: Improving Patient Flow, 6^th National Invitational Conference on Wait Time Measurement, Monitoring & Management, Ottawa, 2009

• C De Coster, A Fitzgerald & T Noseworthy, “Developing priority-setting referral tools for medical specialities”, Canadian Association for Health Services & Policy Research Conference, Gatineau, 2008

• A Fitzgerald, C De Coster, R Naden & T Noseworthy, “Priority-setting for referrals from primary care providers to rheumatologists”, American College of Rheumatology, 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco

University of California Berkeley

• T Schluchter & D Byler, “MeetMarket: Find your crowd”, Master's Final Project, Master of Information Management and Systems, 2011

The University of Edinburgh

• S Kiarsi, “A framework for the evaluation of renewable energy in developing countries”, Dissertation, MSc (Geoscience), 2011

The University of Melbourne

• K Bennell, F Dobson, R Hinman et al, “Identification of a standardised set of physical performance outcome measures for lower limb osteoarthritis”, OA Working Party project, 2011-

The University of New South Wales / City of Sydney Council

• L Corkery, P Osmond, J Blair & S Ahrestani, “Integrating vegetative systems on buildings to help achieve Sustainable Sydney 2030 targets and address climate change adaptation: A pilot project with the City of Sydney”, research project, 2011-

University of Otago

Bio-Statistics

• P Herbison, “A last attempt to rank studies for risk of bias using 1000Minds”, Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Colorado, 2010

• P Herbison, “Can 1000Minds be used to provide a valid ranking of studies by risk of bias?”, Joint Meeting of the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group & the UK Meta-Analysis in Medicine Group, Freiburg, 2008

• P Herbison, P Hansen, J Hay-Smith, M Lauti, F Ombler & D Wilson, “A new method for combining multiple outcomes to obtain overall results from randomised trials for chronic conditions”, 2008

Design Studies

• D Willan, “StarDraft”, Strategic Design project, Bachelor of Applied Sciences, 2009

Economics

• D Taylor, “Demeanour or degree: Which characteristics are perceived as the most important in prospective entrepreneurs?”, Honours dissertation, 2011

• T Stevenson, “The cost of freedom: a revealed preference analysis of camping in New Zealand”, Honours dissertation, 2011

• T Sullivan, “Health technology prioritisation”, PhD, 2009- (news)

• B Wells, “Understanding variations in stated willingness-to-pay for energy efficiency”, Honours dissertation, 2010

• P Hansen, “Getting value for money – a new approach”, Guest Lectures by Visiting Academics, New Zealand Treasury, 2010

• P Thorsnes, C Smithies & T Bishop, “Market and householder valuation of improvements in home heating efficiency”, 2007-8

• C Smithies, “Generation of cardinal value data from ordinal rankings”, PhD, 2004-

Energy Studies

• P Thorsnes & R Lawson, “Household preferences for energy efficient space and water heating systems” (PPT presentation), 34^th International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) International Conference, Stockholm, 2011

• G Carrington, P Thorsnes, J Stephenson, R Lawson, B Barton & M Mirosa, The Energy Cultures Research Project, 2009-

Entrepreneurship

• B Fay, “InFays – a new online tool for allocating advertising budgets”, Business Incubation project, Master of Entrepreneurship, 2010-

Geography

• R Morgan & N Fletcher, “Evaluating software to capture value preferences”, 29th Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Ghana, 2009

• N Fletcher & R Morgan, “Characterising value preferences in impact assessment: Evaluation of the 1000Minds software package”, NZ Association for Impact Assessment Conference, 2008

• N Fletcher, “Assessing 1000Minds in the environmental impact assessment process: deriving and modeling the environmental preferences of a community”, Master of Science, 2007-8 (news1, 2, 3)

• A Christofferson, “Analysing residential preferences”, Master of Regional & Resource Planning, 2006

Human Nutrition

• L Mainvil and colleagues, “Out of the box: What factors prevent families eating more fruits and vegetables?”, 2011-

Information Science

• H Noorebad, “Multi-criteria decision-making models for selecting Business Intelligence (BI) applications”, BSc (Hons) dissertation, 2010

International Studies

• W McGimpsey, “Sustainability preferences: An investigation of consumer demand for sustainability attributes with regard to New Zealand's agricultural sector”, Master of International Studies thesis, 2011

Marketing

• M Li, “Changes in consumers’ attitudes and behaviours over time towards products and services in the beauty industry”, Master of Business, 2009

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• M Vulavala, “Device selection process”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011

• H Almakky, “AbacusBio Ltd’s use of 1000Minds: Business model and statistical process improvement”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011

• M Keller, “CentrePort Wellington: An analysis of labour costs, workforce planning and scheduling”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011

• K Mailepors, “Emerging trends in Gen Y: influences of the worldwide recession”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2009

• C Wang, J Kelly, J Boiko, R Turton & S Sarkar, “Investment decision-making using 1000Minds, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) tool”, Managerial Economics project, 2011

• C Wahl, M Bali & T Danson, “Redeveloping Dunedin: A natural disaster impact approach”, Managerial Economics project, 2011

• E Joubert & P Van der Merwe, “So you think you can kill? Measuring stakeholders’ preferences concerning the punishment of serious crimes, with special reference to the death penalty”, Managerial Economics project, 2010

• R Tokona, B Chapman, L Douglas & C Dubyk, “Sentencing criteria for prison inmates”, Managerial Economics project, 2009

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Medicine

• W Taylor, J Singh, K Saag et al (2011), “Bringing it all together: A novel approach to the development of response criteria for chronic gout clinical trials”, The Journal of Rheumatology 38, 1467-70

• W Taylor & G Laking (2010), “Value for money – recasting the problem in terms of dynamic access prioritisation”, Disability & Rehabilitation 32, 1020-27

• A Barazanchi, F Brown, L Edmonds et al, “Comparison of a citizens’ jury with a formal decision-theoretic approach (1000Minds) for prioritising health technologies”, Trainee Intern Research Project, 2009

Zoology

• T Byrne, “Development and comparison of approaches to the genetic improvement of sheep”, PhD, 2009-