Why use 1000minds?
1000minds’ decision-making software helps you prioritize or choose between alternatives and individuals. It’s easy to use, fast and reliable.
Decision-making software
Make good decisions you can trust
1000minds helps organizations, individuals and groups with the power and user-friendliness of our decision-making software.
A trusted partner for the world’s most ambitious decision-makers
Decision-making applications
Clever, easy-to-use tools designed to help you reduce biases and make important decisions based on ranking, prioritizing or choosing between alternatives.
Download brochure- Focus on what matters Use 1000minds to get to the heart of your decision-making problems and choose the best options.
- Find solutions faster Get up and running quickly and easily share access with colleagues so you can work together.
- Target new possibilities Make better decisions and spot opportunities sooner by evaluating simple trade-off scenarios.
- Take people with you Engage with others, ranging from experts to members of the public.
- Better decision-making Make decisions you can have confidence in and avoid the cost of bad ones.
- Fair and inclusive Reduce biases for more equitable and consistent decision-making.
- Transparent & ethical Rely on auditable decision processes you can trust and defend.
- Scalable & reliable Make the best choices every time, for both one-off and repeated decisions.
User-friendly and scalable processes you can have confidence in
- 1. Create Start with one of our examples, or build your own model from scratch.
- 2. Tailor Fine-tune and refine your model by following a simple step-by-step process.
- 3. Run Work as a single decision-maker, together as a group or survey as many people as you like.
- 4. Results Understand and apply your results using a variety of graphical and analytical tools.
Prioritization
Prioritize or choose between alternatives and individuals
- Evaluate and rank supplier proposals
- Short-list job candidates
- Rank research grant applications
- Prioritize patients for access to health care
- Select students for restricted courses and scholarships
Organized-crime policing success story
Patient prioritization success story
Value for money
Get the best value when allocating resources
- Allocate a budget across competing projects
- Select an investment portfolio
- Distribute research funding
- Choose the best infrastructure developments
- Assess new technologies
Group decision-making software
Include people in decisions or creating decision-making tools
- Perform a “noise audit” of people’s intuitive rankings
- Agree on your criteria and test them (inter-rater reliability)
- Determine weights for the criteria
- Rate alternatives on the criteria
- Resolve disagreements in pursuit of consensus
Plant & animal breeding success story
Disease classification success story
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
Four ingredients for MCDA success
- Alternatives (or individuals) to be ranked or chosen
- Criteria by which the alternatives are evaluated and compared
- Weights representing the relative importance of the criteria
- Decision-makers and potentially other stakeholders whose preferences are to be represented
Disease prioritization success story
Flood risk management success story
“Excellent tool for assisting decision-makers across a broad range of applications. Clever design, and very easy to use.”
– Dr Trudy Sullivan
Health economist • Dunedin School of Medicine
Questions & answers
What makes 1000minds special?
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 800+ universities and other research organizations worldwide. 1000minds has also been extensively peer-reviewed in many arenas over the last two decades. 390+ 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).
How is software used in decision-making to get the best results?
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.
What are decision-making tools used for?
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.
What is Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)?
MCDA, also known as Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), is a popular methodology for making decisions when multiple criteria (or objectives) need to be considered together. By making the weights and associated trade-offs between the criteria explicit in a structured way, MCDA results in more transparent and consistent decisions.
There are many applications for MCDA, and 1000minds software can be used for all of them, including selecting new projects or investments, shortlisting job applicants, prioritizing patients, ranking funding applications, and much more.
Is there a free trial?
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.
How much does 1000minds cost?
Our most popular software and support packages, along with pricing details tailored to a variety of circumstances, are outlined at our Pricing.
What data security measures are in place?
Your data is safe with us. 1000minds is independently audited to maintain SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. Communications between your computer and 1000minds are always encrypted and data is encrypted at rest. Our data center provider meets a broad set of international and industry-specific compliance standards, such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 1 and SOC 2, as well as country-specific standards including Australia IRAP and UK G-Cloud. If requested, we can enter into a contractual agreement to guarantee the confidentiality of your information in 1000minds.
How do I quickly get up to speed using 1000minds?
Free, step-by step video tutorials on how to use 1000minds are available in our resource center and on our YouTube channel. Our friendly support team is also available to assist you.
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