Decision-making & conjoint analysis software

1000minds is the only software in the world that combines the power of both decision-making and conjoint analysis in one beautiful package. 1000minds’ “secret spice” is the patented, award-winning PAPRIKA method, invented by company founders Franz Ombler and Paul Hansen. PAPRIKA is designed to be as cognitively simple and user-friendly for decision-makers as possible, so that you can have confidence in your results.

1000minds is highly regarded for its reliability and validity, being used for research and teaching at 880+ universities and other research organizations worldwide. 1000minds has also been extensively peer-reviewed in many arenas over the last two decades. 430+ articles or abstracts, many for healthcare applications, have been published since 2006. With a beautiful and user-friendly interface, it’s no wonder that 1000minds has been recognized in eight innovation awards and complimented as “a tool of great power and sheer elegance” (Consensus Software Award 2010, sponsored by IBM and Microsoft).

The right decision-making software is very useful to reduce biases and “noise” that afflict judgements and can lead to potentially poor choices. 1000minds decision-making software gives you the tools to make important decisions efficiently, fairly and transparently.

Good decision-making can increase your business’ profitability by, for example, helping you choose the best investments or capital projects representing good value for money, or by targeting the right strategic direction. In the health sector, good decision-making can save lives by prioritizing the patients most in need of life-saving treatment. By using 1000minds, your decision-making process is also completely auditable, so your organization and stakeholders can see exactly how and why decisions were made.

Decision-making tools help individuals and groups choose the best option from the alternatives being considered. 1000minds’ user-friendly decision-making tools can be used for many applications, including prioritizing alternatives (e.g. which project, person or option to choose), identifying alternatives that are good value for money when allocating a budget, and group decision-making to build consensus in clusters of stakeholders, employees and the public.

Yes, we can help design and build decision-making software, integrations and bespoke systems around your organization’s workflows.

You can involve us a little or a lot, as much as you require, e.g. we can provide advice on architecture, supply development services to build software libraries or modules, or even build and run entire systems. Learn more about our software development services.

MCDA, also known as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), is about making decisions when multiple criteria need to be considered together to rank or choose between potentially many alternatives.

A sub-discipline of operations research with foundations in economics, psychology and mathematics, MCDA is concerned with formally structuring and solving decision problems. Instead of scoring everything in your head, you set out the criteria explicitly, determine their relative importance, and see how each option measures up against them.

MCDA reduces biases from decision-makers relying on their gut feeling and group decision-making failures (e.g. groupthink) that almost inevitably afflict intuitive approaches. By making the trade-offs between criteria explicit in a structured way, MCDA results in better decision-making. Most MCDA methods are supported by specialized software, like 1000minds.

Yes, you can try 1000minds for free for 15 days. You can also book a free, personalized onboarding call to get you up and running as soon as possible.