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Cluster analysis for conjoint analysis

1000minds conjoint analysis now includes cluster analysis – find groups of participants with similar preferences and turn them into targetable segments.

Cluster analysis for conjoint analysis

Decision-making biases: 10 costly mistakes made by organizations

Cognitive biases quietly shape high-stakes decisions in every organization. Here are the 10 potentially most costly biases – and how to avoid them.

Decision-making biases: 10 costly mistakes made by organizations

Patients choose PAPRIKA as top preference elicitation method in new study

New research shows patients rate 1000minds' PAPRIKA method as their preferred approach among five preferences elicitation methods

Patients choose PAPRIKA as top preference elicitation method in new study

1000minds’ market simulator for conjoint analysis

Learn about 1000minds’ market simulator for modeling market shares, testing product offerings, "what-ifs", price sensitivity ("elasticity") and demand curves.

1000minds’ market simulator for conjoint analysis

Creating an ethical decision-making model for your organization

Learn about creating an ethical decision-making model for navigating priorities that aligns with your organization’s core values and ethical principles.

Creating an ethical decision-making model for your organization

How to identify decision criteria, with examples

Getting your decision criteria right is crucial for making sound decisions, but the process comes with many challenges.

How to identify decision criteria, with examples

Using 1000minds, World Health Organization prioritizes pathogens for vaccine development

In support of the World Health Organization's Immunization Agenda for 2030, the organization used 1000minds to prioritize endemic pathogens for research in a way that is inclusive, data-centered, and representative of stakeholder perspectives around the world.

Using 1000minds, World Health Organization prioritizes pathogens for vaccine development

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.

Top 9 decision-making tools for better organizational decision-making

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?

Why are poor decisions made? Common decision-making mistakes explained

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.

What are trade-offs in decision-making?

1000minds survey reveals New Zealanders’ top concerns about vaccines

See how a 1000minds study revealed New Zealanders’ top concerns about vaccines, generating insights into vaccine hesitancy and public-health priorities.

1000minds survey reveals New Zealanders’ top concerns about vaccines

1000minds in Europe

1000minds now has an application instance in the European Union with all data storage and processing performed in the EU.

1000minds in Europe

Project selection: How to & best practices

Learn how project selection helps organizations evaluate, prioritize and choose projects aligning with their strategic priorities and delivering maximum value.

Project selection: How to & best practices

PAPRIKA method guides optimal hybrid energy configuration for industrial decarbonization in Egypt

Discover how researchers used 1000minds to evaluate alternative hybrid energy options for industrial decarbonization and cleaner energy policy in Egypt.

PAPRIKA method guides optimal hybrid energy configuration for industrial decarbonization in Egypt

What is Human-in-the-loop (HITL) in AI-assisted decision-making?

Learn what Human-in-the-Loop decision-making means and how human expertise and AI can work together to help make important decisions, with real-world examples.

What is Human-in-the-loop (HITL) in AI-assisted decision-making?

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.

Valuing “the indeterminable” – the NZ 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’ AI assistant: keeping humans in charge of AI assisted decision-making

1000minds used for cassava breeding to fight food insecurity

Discover how 1000minds was used to identify cassava traits preferred by African farmers, supporting crop breeding decisions and improved food security.

1000minds used for cassava breeding to fight food insecurity

Ecologists create new tool for scoring biodiversity of private gardens

Learn about a biodiversity scoring tool for private gardens and its implications for more ecologically sustainable cities in an increasingly urbanized world.

Ecologists create new tool for scoring biodiversity of private gardens

Lockdown design: Which features of lockdowns are most important to Covid-19 experts?

Find out about a study based on a 1000minds conjoint analysis survey of which lockdown characteristics were considered most important by Covid-19 experts.

Lockdown design: Which features of lockdowns are most important to Covid-19 experts?

Australasian Project of the Year – 2021

Discover how 1000minds supported Dunedin City Council and WSP’s award-winning St Clair to St Kilda Coastal Plan engagement project in a real-world application.

Australasian Project of the Year – 2021

New tool to assess the wellbeing of lion cubs in the wildlife tourism industry

Learn about a 1000minds tool for assessing the wellbeing of lion cubs in wildlife tourism facilities, supporting more ethical care in a real-world application.

New tool to assess the wellbeing of lion cubs in the wildlife tourism industry

How does 1000minds differ from machine learning?

Discover how 1000minds relates to, and differs from, machine learning by using transparent trade-offs, human judgments and criteria-based decision-making.

How does 1000minds differ from machine learning?

‘Noisy’ expert judgments

Learn about Daniel Kahneman’s book, “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment”, and how to make better decisions by applying criteria, weights and structured methods.

‘Noisy’ expert judgments

Electric or petrol/diesel? Which car would you choose?

Discover how 1000minds revealed people’s preferences for electric versus petrol/diesel vehicles and their key attributes in a important real-world application.

Electric or petrol/diesel? Which car would you choose?

1000minds offers $2000 scholarships

Find out about 1000minds’ US$2000 scholarships for postgraduate research involving decision-making, conjoint analysis or discrete choice experiments (DCE).

1000minds offers $2000 scholarships

1000minds decision-making course available on GoSkills

Explore the 1000minds decision-making course on GoSkills, with tutorial videos, exercises and quizzes, to help you learn and apply valuable decision skills.

1000minds decision-making course available on GoSkills

What do people look for when donating to international charities?

See how a 1000minds conjoint analysis survey identified what matters most to people when donating to international charities in a real-world application.

What do people look for when donating to international charities?

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 health experts developed a prioritization tool for intensive care under Covid-19

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.

How legalization of the rhino horn trade could impact rhino welfare

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 tool to help prioritize people for 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.

New Zealand health agencies use 1000minds to develop a general surgery prioritization tool

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.

1000minds helps doctors prioritize Covid-19 patients for intensive care and hospitalization

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.

Paul Hansen’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture

1000minds used to prioritize drug-resistant bacterial infections to guide R&D into new antibiotics

Discover how WHO used 1000minds to create a Priority Pathogens List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide drug R&D and antibiotic priorities globally.

1000minds used to prioritize drug-resistant bacterial infections to guide R&D into new antibiotics

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.

1000minds helps World Health Organization prioritize deadliest diseases

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.

A problem solved – Country-Wide magazine

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?

What degree should you go for?

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.

The implications of geoengineering schemes for New Zealand

Sheep and plant breeding objectives

Discover how 1000minds helped reveal otherwise hidden factors affecting the profitability of sheep and plant breeding for more reliable trait selection.

Sheep and plant breeding objectives

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?

Treatment-priority survey

Computer may prioritize certain health basket drugs

New software developed in New Zealand and improved in Israel for choosing medications for the health basket.

Computer may prioritize certain health basket drugs

TUANZ announces Innovation Awards finalists

1000minds is a finalist for the TUANZ Education Award 2009.

TUANZ announces Innovation Awards finalists

New tools to help decision-makers get better value-for-money

Learn how 1000minds helps business and government decision-makers target better ‘value-for-money’ when allocating scarce resources across competing uses.

New tools to help decision-makers get better value-for-money

New software could improve democratic input

Learn how 1000minds helped gather democratic input on community concerns about a cement plant near Oamaru, New Zealand, including pollution and local impacts.

New software could improve democratic input

Course choices made easier with software

Otago Choice (based on 1000minds technology) launched at Otago University to help students choose subjects to major in.

Course choices made easier with software

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.

NBR Special Report: Dunedin: University star rates ”let’s get in and do it“

1000minds wins a Consensus Software Award

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.

1000minds – finalist innovation

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.

Valid, transparent & fair decision-making processes for access to elective health care

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.

More kudos for innovative software

Sharpening up to woo US national security

Read about how 1000minds pursued opportunities in the US homeland security market with its award-winning decision-making and conjoint analysis software.

Sharpening up to woo US national security

Can’t make up your mind? Ask Point Wizard

Read about 1000minds at the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Asian Innovation Awards, celebrating ideas that improve quality of life or productivity globally.

Can’t make up your mind? Ask Point Wizard

Neck-to-neck fight for the GES Awards 2005

Read about the finalists, including Point Wizard (now 1000minds), for the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore Award for innovation and improving living standards.

Neck-to-neck fight for the GES Awards 2005

Asian Innovation Awards: contenders stress different ways of thinking

Read about Point Wizard (now 1000minds) being one of six finalists for the Global Entrepolis@Singapore Award, co-presented by The Asian Wall Street Journal.

Asian Innovation Awards: contenders stress different ways of thinking

Winner! Tuanz Healthcare Award 2005

Point Wizard [1000minds] won the 2005 TUANZ Healthcare Award.

Winner! Tuanz Healthcare Award 2005

Wizard development

Announcing a new software program designed to provide more accurate rankings of alternatives or individuals and better decision-making.

Wizard development

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