Top 9 decision-making tools for better organizational decision-making
Making the right decision involves navigating a multitude of challenges. Using the right decision-making tools can help.
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Why are poor decisions made? Common decision-making mistakes explained
Poor decision-making can have significant consequences and waste valuable time and resources. But why are poor decisions made in the first place and how can we avoid making them?
What are trade-offs in decision-making?
Trade-offs are all around us in every day life. Knowing how to evaluate complex trade-offs is central to good decision-making, ensuring optimal allocation of resources at a personal, organizational, and societal level.
1000minds survey reveals New Zealanders’ top concerns about vaccines
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the biggest public health threads worldwide. A first-of-its kind study that aims to combat vaccine hesitancy used 1000minds to reveal New Zealander's biggest concerns when it comes to vaccine characteristics.
1000minds in Europe
1000minds now has an application instance in the European Union with all data storage and processing performed in the EU.
Project selection: How to & best practices
Project selection is the process of evaluating potential projects and choosing the ones that are most likely to deliver the desired outcomes and benefits. It involves identifying the projects that align with an organization’s strategic goals, mission and vision.
PAPRIKA method guides optimal hybrid energy configuration for industrial decarbonization in Egypt
As countries around the world strive to reduce their carbon footprint, a new study uses 1000minds to assesses alternative approaches for decarbonizing electricity generation in a large-scale industrial context.
What is Human-in-the-loop (HITL) in AI-assisted decision-making?
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) decision-making combines human expertise with AI algorithms to improve outcomes. HITL has applications in various domains such as healthcare, cybersecurity, finance, and more.
Valuing “the indeterminable” – the NZ Naval Combat Force
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), commissioned by the New Zealand Defence Force, used 1000minds preferences surveys to investigate how New Zealanders value the country’s naval combat force.
1000minds’ AI assistant: keeping humans in charge of AI assisted decision-making
1000minds decision-making software now includes an AI assistant powered by OpenAI services – but keeps you in the driver’s seat.
1000minds used for cassava breeding to fight food insecurity
Improving food security through crop breeding means that farmers must be willing to adopt improved crop varieties. 1000minds was used to understand which cassava traits are preferred by African farmers.
Ecologists create new tool for scoring biodiversity of private gardens
A new tool to rate gardens on their level of biodiversity could have key implications for building more ecologically sustainable cities in an increasingly urbanized world.
Lockdown design: Which features of lockdowns are most important to Covid-19 experts?
A 1000minds conjoint analysis survey was used to find out how Covid-19 experts feel about the relative importance of possible lockdown features in terms of how they are experienced.
Australasian Project of the Year – 2021
1000minds played a key role in Dunedin City Council’s (DCC) and WSP’s St Clair to St Kilda Coastal Plan engagement project, which was awarded “Australasian Project of the Year”.
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.
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?
‘Noisy’ expert judgments
Daniel Kahneman’s 2021 book, “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment”, reveals the enormous variability – ‘noise’ – in experts’ judgments and recommends using criteria and weights for decision-making.
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.
1000minds offers $2000 scholarships
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.
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.
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.
Webinar: How to fairly and efficiently allocate scarce resources in the health sector
1000minds is excited to offer a new webinar for health professionals, administrators, and policy-makers based in the western hemisphere
How health experts developed a prioritization tool for intensive care under Covid-19
1000minds was used to rapidly develop a decision-support tool for prioritizing Covid-19 patients for admission to intensive care units (ICUs).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
Computer may prioritize certain health basket drugs
New software developed in New Zealand and improved in Israel for choosing medications for the health basket.
TUANZ announces Innovation Awards finalists
1000minds is a finalist for the TUANZ Education Award 2009.
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.
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.
Course choices made easier with software
Otago Choice (based on 1000minds technology) launched at Otago University to help students choose subjects to major in.
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.
1000minds wins a Consensus Software Award
1000minds wins a Consensus Software Award
1000minds – finalist innovation
1000minds is a finalist for the 2006 Westpac Otago Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Winner! Tuanz Healthcare Award 2005
Point Wizard [1000minds] won the 2005 TUANZ Healthcare Award.
Wizard development
Announcing a new software program designed to provide more accurate rankings of alternatives or individuals and better decision-making.
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