1000minds and its applications in an extraordinarily wide range of areas has received a lot of attention (since 2003), for which we are very grateful.
New tool to assess the wellbeing of lion cubs in the wildlife tourism industry
Managers of controversial wildlife interaction facilities, such as lion farms and petting zoos, can use the tool to assess if cubs are cared for in an ethical way. Read more »
How does 1000minds differ from machine learning?
Despite the ‘intelligence’ demonstrated by machine learning algorithms, blindly trusting them can lead to dangerous decision-making. How does the 1000minds PAPRIKA method relate to machine learning? Read more »
Introducing new tour feature for trade-offs
A new tour feature – a step-by-step introduction – is available for navigating the trade-offs step and answering the trade-off questions in 1000minds. Read more »
Balancing relative states of health tricky act
1000minds was used to value people’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as represented on the EQ-5D-5L health classification system. Read more »
‘Noisy’ expert judgements
Daniel Kahneman’s latest book, "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment", reveals the enormous variability – ‘noise’ – in experts’ judgements and recommends using criteria and weights for decision-making. Read more »
Electric or petrol/diesel? Which car would you choose?
1000minds was used to discover people’s preferences with respect to the relative importance of the main attributes associated with electric relative to petrol/diesel vehicles. Read more »
1000minds offers $2000 scholarships for decision-making and conjoint analysis research
1000minds is proud to offer two $2000 USD scholarships each year to post-graduate students worldwide for research projects involving decision-making or conjoint analysis. Read more »
New 1000minds decision-making course available on GoSkills
The course compiles our tutorial videos, packaged together with exercises and quizzes to help you learn how to use 1000minds to make reliable and effective decisions. Read more »
What do people look for when donating to international charities?
Participants were presented a 1000minds conjoint analysis survey with the goal of figuring out which characteristics matter most when donating money to international charities. Read more »
New webinar announcement
1000minds is excited to offer a new webinar for health professionals, administrators, and policy-makers based in the western hemisphere Read more »
How health experts developed a prioritization tool for intensive care under COVID19
1000minds was used to rapidly develop a decision-support tool for prioritizing Covid-19 patients for admission to intensive care unitis (ICUs). Read more »
How legalization of the rhino horn trade could impact rhino welfare
Legalizing the trade in rhino horn could be beneficial for the welfare of rhinoceros, a study using 1000minds shows. Read more »
Accuracy statistic – new feature
1000minds has released a new accuracy statistic, giving you the power to tune the accuracy of your decision models, especially when scores (rather than ranks) matter, e.g. in cost-benefit analysis. Read more »
1000minds partners with German consulting firm CHOICEMINER
1000minds has partnered with German consulting firm CHOICEMINER to support 1000minds decision-making software in Germany and also to provide German-speaking support for Europe. Read more »
New tool to help prioritize people for COVID-19 vaccinations
To support countries battling the pandemic, 1000minds has made available a tool to help with prioritizing people to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Read more »
New Zealand health agencies use 1000minds to develop a general surgery prioritization tool
1000minds was used to develop a national prioritization tool for elective general surgery in New Zealand, which could be applicable to other OECD countries. Read more »
1000minds helps doctors prioritize COVID-19 patients for intensive care and hospitalization
1000minds was used to create an online tool for prioritizing Covid-19 patients for intensive care (e.g. respirators, life support) if ICUs are overwhelmed. Read more »
A new online tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets
Research results for a new online tool based on 1000minds for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, for measuring people's health-related quality of life, is reported. Read more »
A new version of 1000minds
An introduction to the new features and changes introduced in the major October 2019 update to 1000minds. Read more »
App to assist drinkers with wine selection
1000minds was used to create the weights for the algorithm at the heart of wine-tasting app Wine inMind, available from Apple's App Store, for people to rate wine themselves. Read more »
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in healthcare decision-making
A survey article about the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (including 1000minds) for health sector decision-making appeared in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Read more »
Managing our fresh water: what are the options?
For it's 60th anniversary the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) conducted a survey using 1000minds to illustrate the choices New Zealand might have to make on fresh water policy. Read more »
Decision Analysis Software Survey 2018
1000minds appears in the latest Decision Analysis Software Survey conducted by ORMS Today. Read more »
Paul Hansen's Inaugural Professorial Lecture
"Choices are the hinges of destiny.” (Pythagoras, c. 500 BC)... Can we help people make better ones? Join Paul for his Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Read more »
1000minds helps make world’s decisions
Since 2003, 1000minds has been helping people and organizations with their decision-making and also to understand people's preferences via conjoint analysis. Read more »
1000minds used to prioritize drug-resistant bacterial infections to guide R&D into new antibiotics
The World Health Organization used 1000minds to create a Priority Pathogens List (PPL) of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to support R&D into new and effective drugs. Read more »
New SLE criteria under development: A joint effort of the ACR and EULAR
1000minds was used to create a new set of criteria for classifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a potentially severe autoimmune disease. Read more »
ACR/EULAR response criteria approved for adult and juvenile myositis
1000minds was used to create response criteria for adult and juvenile sufferers of myositis, a systemic autoimmune disease. Read more »
Other Super options preferred
Andrew Coleman discussed a range of options for reforming New Zealand Superannuation, based on results from research conducted involving 1000minds. Read more »
Treatments better than antibiotics need developing “now”
Following the publication of the WHO’s list of 12 deadly diseases in most need of R&D – created using 1000minds – researchers warn New Zealand against complacency. Read more »
1000minds helps World Health Organization prioritize deadliest diseases
Created using 1000minds, the World Health Organization published a list of antibiotic-resistant diseases to help prioritize R&D into new antibiotics globally. Read more »
Software co-inventor off to WHO
Led by the World Health Organization and the University of Tübingen, 70 international specialists are using 1000minds to prioritize antimicrobial-resistant diseases for R&D into new antibiotics. Read more »
Tool developed to assess autoinflammatory disease burden
1000minds was used to develop a tool to assess autoinflammatory disease burden, known as the autoinflammatory disease damage index (ADDI). Read more »
Decision Analysis Software Survey 2016
1000minds appears in the 2016 Decision Analysis Software Survey conducted by OR/MS Today. Read more »
Cloud computing adoption decision modelling for SMEs: a conjoint analysis
1000minds was used to model cloud adoption decision-making by SMEs, and ultimately to choose cloud services and deployment models. Read more »
Better decision-making!
If you want to make everyday decisions on the go (e.g. using your mobile device), give meenymo.com a go. Sign-up, it’s free! Read more »
Economic psychology applied to business: Designing a mobile-banking app
Concepts from behavioral economics – also known as economic psychology – were used, with support from 1000minds, to generate insights for improving a mobile-banking app. Read more »
MeenyMo – powered by 1000minds – launched!!!
1000minds has released meenymo.com – a FREE web app for everyday decision-making, powered by 1000minds technology. Read more »
Foreign aid: How important is aid effectiveness to people for choosing countries to support?
1000minds was used to determine how important aid effectiveness is to people relative to other criteria for choosing countries to support with bilateral foreign aid. Read more »
Combining multi-criteria decision analysis and mini-health technology assessment
A funding decision-support tool suitable for assessing medical devices for individual patient use in French university hospitals was created using 1000minds. Read more »
ACR: Criteria enable prompt diagnosis and treatment of CAPS
New diagnostic criteria for cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) created using 1000minds were presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology. Read more »
ACR: New Sjögren’s classification criteria on the way
New classification criteria for Sjögren’s syndrome created using 1000minds are ready for sign-off by the American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism. Read more »
Development of preliminary remission criteria for gout using Delphi and 1000minds
Delphi and 1000minds consensus exercises were used to establish consensus for potential remission criteria for use in clinical trials of gout. Read more »
Ko Awatea International Excellence in Health Improvement Award
“The Waikato rheumatology electronic referral project” – for creating, using 1000minds, a new electronic referral and triage system for rheumatology patients. Read more »
An attribute prioritization-based segmentation of the Chinese consumer market for fruit juice
1000minds is used to study how Chinese consumers prioritize product attributes like brand, nutrition, shelf-life, price and manufacturing country when making fruit juice purchasing decisions. Read more »
2015 Gout Classification Criteria: An ACR/ELAR Collaborative Initiative
International researchers, supported by the American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism, developed new classification criteria for gout using 1000minds. Read more »
Development of a points system for determining access to rheumatology services
A group of clinicians used 1000minds to create a points system for determining access to rheumatology services in New Zealand. Read more »
Advancing marine policy towards ecosystem based management by eliciting public preferences
1000minds is used to elicit people’s willingness to make trade-offs among taxes and four socio-ecological attributes related to marine reserves and customary fishing areas. Read more »
What do New Zealanders want from their retirement income policies?
The New Zealand Treasury used 1000minds to explore the preferences of a sample of 1066 New Zealanders concerning retirement income policies. This paper won the NZ Economic Policy Prize. Read more »
Heterogeneity of farmers' preferences for improvements in dairy cow traits
1000minds was used to quantify Australian dairy farmers’ preferences for cow trait improvements to inform and ultimately direct the choice of traits and selection indexes. Read more »
New ACR EULAR Guidelines for Systemic Sclerosis Classification
An international team of experts used 1000minds to create disease classification criteria for systemic sclerosis, to identify homogenous groups of subjects for participation in research studies. Read more »
Which drugs, medical procedures and equipment should be funded?
All health systems must grapple with how best to allocate their scarce resources across the myriad health 'technologies' – drugs, medical procedures, equipment, etc – that are potentially available. Read more »
1000minds in The Little Black Book of Dunedin Business
Paul Hansen and 1000minds feature in The Little Black Book of Dunedin Business, which was launched in November in Dunedin, New Zealand. Read more »
Review of dairy breeding objectives for Australia
1000minds is helping the Australian dairy industry set the direction of genetic improvements for their cows and bulls, to raise profitability. Read more »
Developing countries in need: Which characteristics appeal most to people when donating money?
1000minds was used to discover the relative importance of five characteristics of developing countries considered by people when choosing countries to donate money to. Read more »
Picking grapes, scoring wines
1000minds is being used to assess and rank wines based on applying Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and involving 13 decision criteria. Read more »
Work and research combine to create superior sheep
1000minds was used to develop new methods for ensuring that sheep breeders select the genetically most profitable animals for breeding. Read more »
Sustainability challenges of residential reinforced-concrete panel buildings
1000minds is used to discover the preferences of Eastern Europeans with respect to desirable characteristics of residential buildings made from large concrete panels. Read more »
Science meets the market in China
A 1000minds Preferences Survey was used to understand what matters to Chinese consumers with respect to a variety of New Zealand lamb meat characteristics. Read more »
Charitable giving: How recipient-country characteristics influence donors' behavior
Which characteristics of countries receiving aid matter most to people when they give money to charities, and what is their relative importance? Read more »
Harvesting solar energy in sunny Dunedin
What do Dunedin home owners value the most about rooftop photovoltaic systems when they think about using them to power their homes? Read more »
Access to health care – Radio New Zealand
Paul Hansen discusses access to health care in New Zealand, including the use of 1000minds for prioritizing patients for surgery as well as PHARMAC’s role in deciding which drugs and devices to buy. Read more »
NZAEL releases revised economic values
Revised economic values from the National Breeding Objective review of dairy cattle were released by DairyNZ subsidiary NZ Animal Evaluation Ltd. Read more »
1000minds New Features – February 2013
New features released February 2013: sharing access and alternatives entry. Read more »
A problem solved – Country-Wide magazine
A Problem Solved – an article in Country-Wide magazine, February 2013, about a New Zealand-created software program, 1000minds, going global. Read more »
A new framework for prioritizing health technologies
The Value for Money Chart is a framework for health technology prioritization to help policymakers consider benefits, costs, evidence and 'X-factors'. Read more »
Free-entry ‘Play’ earns theatre awards
The winners of 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards were announced last night, with the help of 1000minds. Read more »
Judges of Dunedin’s best theatre call in virtual help
Using 1000minds to judge the Dunedin Theatre Awards has resulted in some exciting final nominations, which were announced this week. Read more »
2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards (2)
The 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards nominations are announced. This year marks the introduction of some remarkable technology called 1000minds. Read more »
Ewe efficiency aim of online project
As land use change forces sheep and lamb finishing on to hill country, the focus is firmly on how to lift ewe efficiency using 1000minds. Read more »
Fairer theatre awards object of using matrix
The 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards will use 1000minds to help the judges decide on the nominees and winners for the award categories. Read more »
2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards (1)
This year, for the first time ever, 1000minds is being used for judging the 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards. Read more »
Decision Analysis Software Survey 2012
1000minds appears in the latest Decision Analysis Software Survey conducted by OR/MS Today. Read more »
New features – Sept 2012
1000minds - new features released September 2012: look and feel, interactive charts and survey tool improvements. Read more »
More 1000minds new features
1000minds is pleased to announce the release of a range of new features. Read more »
Weaning way for merinos
Improved weaning percentages and weaning weights lead preferences for Merino breeders. That's the findings of a survey by Sheep Genetics and Meat and Livestock Australia. Read more »
A process for prioritizing patients for health services
A new process for creating points systems for prioritizing patients for access to elective health services is described, based on 1000minds. Read more »
Using estimated breeding values in plant breeding
The use of 1000minds for determining the relative importance of specific traits in grass pasture breeding programmes in Australia is discussed. Read more »
How do farmers decide when to renew their pasture?
Pasture renewal can be an expensive business but is essential for long-term farm profitability. Read more »
Make better decisions with electronic robot Ask George!
When you have to buy robots for millions of dollars it's important to make priorities clear, as supported by a new tool from Lars Dalgaard of the Danish Technological Institute. Read more »
A tough decision Now No Major Drama
One of the toughest decisions school leavers face is ‘what should I specialise in at university?’ Read more »
Good Choice
Helping business people and students make better decisions - Graduate Factory and No Major Drama. Read more »
Shaping the dairy cow of the future
Dairy farmers get a chance to shape the cow of the future at a national road show over the next month. Read more »
1000minds MCDA software – implementing the PAPRIKA method
Article from EURO Working Group on Multicriteria Decision Aiding about 1000minds and the inner workings of its algorithms. Read more »
BellaOnline - No Major Drama - Major Selection Tool
Susan D. Bates interviews Paul Hansen about No Major Drama (NMD), an Internet-based tool that is designed to help prospective college students select a college major (field of study). Read more »
Implications of geo-engineering schemes for New Zealand
A Royal Society of New Zealand workshop used 1000minds to assess geo-engineering schemes to combat global warming. Read more »
Tool to help pick the right major for you
What should I be? These days, it is a $200,000 question. But now, a group at the University of Otago have come up with a solution to what is one of life's most important decisions: No Major Drama. Read more »
What degree should you go for?
New Zealand company Graduate Factory has come up with a solution to one of the most important decisions in a person's life: What should you major in at university? Read more »
The implications of geoengineering schemes for New Zealand
Next week around 40 scientists and policymakers will meet in Wellington to familiarise themselves with the principles behind geoengineering. Read more »
Spoilt for Choice
Since 2003, 1000minds software has been helping people and organizations to make decisions in a wide range of areas. And, in the last year or so, things have really taken off. Read more »
1000minds clarifies sheep and plant breeding objectives
The power of 1000minds is that farmers can use it to reveal otherwise hidden factors that have a significant impact on profit and they can then focus selection more on these traits. Read more »
Treatment-priority survey
If you had to rank 14 health treatments ranging from hip replacements to drugs for erectile dysfunction according to their benefit or value to society, how would you do it? Read more »
Treatment priorities focus of survey
How to decide which patients should be given priority treatment in a public health system that has limited funding is a question that should be discussed. Read more »
Decision Analysis Software Survey 2010
1000minds appears in the Decision Analysis Software Survey conducted by OR/MS Today. Read more »
Geo-Engineering Implications: An Interactive Workshop
The Royal Society of New Zealand is conducting an interactive workshop on Geo-Engineering with the assistance of Philip Boyd, University of Otago, and Franz Ombler, 1000minds. Read more »
ACR & EULAR debut new RA classification criteria in August
This month, the ACR and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) will release new rheumatoid arthritis (RA) classification criteria. Read more »
Computer says no
Otago Choice asks users to answer questions on their interests and then ranks the 105 major subjects offered at Otago according to how closely they accord with those identified interests. Read more »
New survey features in 1000minds
In March 2010, 1000minds released several new features for its survey tools. Read more »
Computer may prioritize certain health basket drugs
New software developed in New Zealand and improved in Israel may be used in choosing medications for the health basket. Read more »
TUANZ announces Innovation Awards finalists
1000minds is a finalist for the TUANZ Education Award 2009. Read more »
Naenae next in line for a cleanup
GWRC uses 1000minds as an initial assessment tool to help assess a range of environmental, community, regulatory and logistical values and attributes to choose Take Charge areas. Read more »
Economics invention keeps getting better
Article from D-Scene about new value for money tools from 1000minds. Read more »
New tools to help decision-makers get better value-for-money
New features in 1000minds help the private sector and government decision-makers get better ‘value-for-money’ when allocating scarce resources across competing alternative uses. Read more »
Monetary policy preferences
1000minds is used to reveal central bankers’ monetary-policy preferences with respect to tradeoffs between inflation and GDP volatility, interest rates and exchange rates. Read more »
Decision analysis – find a tool that fits
Analytics Magazine reviews the state of decision analysis tools, including 1000minds. Read more »
Choice way to choose course options
1000minds has developed an internet-based program that helps tertiary students plan their preferred course of undergraduate study. Read more »
New software could improve democratic input
Air quality is one of the major concerns people have concerning a $300 million cement plant being built at Weston, near Oamaru, according to information being gathered by Ngaio Fletcher. Read more »
Bayer Innovators Awards – Creative environment spurs growth
1000minds is up for a Bayer Innovators Award. Read more »
Course choices made easier with software
Otago Choice (based on 1000minds technology) launched at Otago University to help students choose subjects to major in. Read more »
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe...
In every public health system in the world there are never enough so-called ‘elective’ (or non-emergency) services available for everyone who could potentially benefit from them. Read more »
Student examining consents process
The resource consents process for a cement plant proposed by Holcim (New Zealand), near Weston, is being researched by University of Otago student Ngaio Fletcher. Read more »
Start, manage and grow your business
1000minds is behind the innovative decision-making software that has grown from being the brainchild of University of Otago economist Paul Hansen to now taking on the world. Read more »
Seeking Otago Minds for 1000minds Project
University of Otago Master’s student Ngaio Fletcher is inviting residents of the Weston and Oamaru area to participate in new research being undertaken on the proposed Holcim cement plant. Read more »
Ideas come from 'Bear Baiting'
A bra designed to fit any woman, no matter how asymmetrical, won the University of Otago’s inaugural “Bear Baiting” ideas competition last month. Read more »
Minds over matter
What happens when you cross a quirky IT expert with a hyperactive: hippie-styled economist? Read more »
Business entrepreneurs to challenge 'bears'
FIVE sets of contestants will battle it out in the finals of a University of Otago 'bear-baiting' event later this month, aimed at rewarding top new business ideas. Read more »
NBR Special Report: Dunedin: University star rates 'let's get in and do it'
Paul Hansen is something of a rock star in Dunedin's academic and entrepreneurial communities. Read more »
1000minds software helps business to prioritize
1000minds and moves into the US market with patents. Read more »
1000minds wins a Consensus Software Award
1000minds wins a Consensus Software Award Read more »
Computer prioritization, Radio NZ
Interviews with Deputy Police Commission Lyn Provost on prioritizing investigation of crimes, and Dr Ray Naden on prioritizing access to elective Health services. Read more »
Need the police? Ask the computer
Overstretched police may get a helping hand from new computer software designed to decide whether officers investigate cases - or abandon them. Read more »
Digital decisions: software being trialled in health
The health ministry has secretly been trialling Dr Paul Hansen and Franz Ombler's computer software to prioritize patients on some waiting lists. Read more »
1000minds. Finalist innovation
1000minds is a finalist for the 2006 Westpac Otago Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards. Read more »
Valid, transparent & fair decision-making processes for access to elective health care
Deciding who gets publicly-funded heart surgery is difficult but the use of world-class internet based software is providing a fairer system for patients. Read more »
More kudos for innovative software
1000minds, a program designed at the School of Business to help people and organizations make optimum decisions, continues to reap awards. Read more »
Sharpening up to woo US national security
The owners of an award-winning software program that aids decision-making by ranking user preferences is trying to crack the growing US homeland security market. Read more »
Can't make up your mind? Ask Point Wizard
1000minds at the Asian Wall St Journal's Asian innovation awards, Asia's premier honour for individuals and companies whose ideas improve the quality of life or productivity. Read more »
Neck-to-neck fight for the GES Awards 2005
The finalists for the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore award come from distinctly different backgrounds but have one thing in common – they either improve business productivity or the quality of life. Read more »
Asian Innovation Awards: contenders stress different ways of thinking
Point Wizard [1000minds] is one of six finalists for the Global Entrepolis@Singapore Award, presented by The Asian Wall Street Journal in association with the Economic Development Board of Singapore. Read more »
Wizard way of choosing right pub
Using software they developed, Dunedin men Paul Hansen and Franz Ombler now offer a free web-based guide to help users choose the ideal drinking establishment. Read more »
Point Wizard conjures magic
1000minds is a finalist in The Asian Wall Street Journal’s annual Asian Innovation Awards later this month. Read more »
Winner! TUANZ Healthcare Award 2005
Point Wizard [1000minds] won the 2005 TUANZ Healthcare Award. Read more »
Upstart takes on three new businesses
Maths Technology, Point Wizard and Exelite have signed up with Upstart, Dunedin's business incubator. Read more »
Dial a decision
You’re on your way to a barbecue and you stop at the supermarket to pick up a bottle of wine. You want to limit the damage to your wallet, but you want to buy something decent. How do you choose? Read more »
Decisions, decisions...
Dr Hansen, who says he is indecisive himself, has co-invented a clever programme, which, at a few clicks of a mouse, can make sophisticated decisions for you. Read more »
Taking the stress out of decision making
Paul Hansen and Franz Ombler have invented Point*Wizard, a revolutionary new program that could take some of the stress out of decision-making. Read more »
Wizard development
Announcing a new software programme designed to provide more accurate rankings of alternatives or individuals and better decision making. Read more »