Projects, Decisions, and Surveys

Quick reference

• 00:00 So you've created your new 1000minds account,
• 00:06 and now you're wondering where to start.
• 00:11 When we log into our account, the first thing we'll see is this page,
• 00:15 which gives us an overview of our projects if we have any.
• 00:20 Here we have the option to create a new project decision or survey,
• 00:25 easily access any decision or survey that we recently worked on,
• 00:30 and view and organize all our existing projects and surveys.
• 00:36 To get started, we'll create a new project.
• 00:39 This is where all the decisions and surveys
• 00:41 pertaining to a particular objective will be located.
• 00:46 Let's name this project funding and budgeting.
• 00:49 Here we'll put in all the decisions and surveys
• 00:51 that relate to how our organisation allocates funding.
• 00:57 Now we see the project that we just created down here.
• 01:02 There are a couple things that we can do with it.
• 01:05 When hovering over the project,
• 01:07 this little pencil icon appears next to the name, and
• 01:12 we can click on it to edit the name of our project at any time.
• 01:17 We won't be working on this project alone, so
• 01:19 we want to invite other people to collaborate on this project with us.
• 01:25 To do that, we'll click on this arrow on the right and
• 01:29 enter the email addresses of the people we want to share the project with.
• 01:34 We can also decide whether we want each participant to be able to edit
• 01:39 the project, which means they can change decisions and
• 01:43 surveys that are in there or create new ones to.
• 01:47 Or if we only want them to be able to view it without changing anything.
• 01:53 When you invite someone, they'll get an email to let them know.
• 01:57 And if they don't have a 1000minds account yet,
• 02:00 it will invite them to sign up.
• 02:03 By clicking on the little information icon on the right,
• 02:07 we can see when this project was created and last modified.
• 02:13 If we click on this icon on a decision or survey,
• 02:16 we can see a little more information about it.
• 02:22 Anytime we want to delete an item, we can do so by clicking on the Delete icon.
• 02:29 This won't permanently delete the item, it'll just send it to
• 02:33 the deleted items page, which we can access through the menu on the left.
• 02:40 Here we can always restore any item at any time we like.
• 02:45 So we don't have to worry about a deleted item being gone forever.
• 02:52 Keep in mind that if you delete a shared item, then it will be deleted for
• 02:56 everyone that the item was shared with.
• 02:59 If you want to remove a project but don't want to delete it for
• 03:03 everyone, you can always just and share it with yourself.
• 03:08 We can use 1000minds for all sorts of decisions.
• 03:12 If you want some ideas for different applications that we can use 1000minds for,
• 03:17 and how to structure our decisions.
• 03:20 We can go to the examples page.
• 03:23 Here we have a variety of demos that we can look at to familiarize ourselves
• 03:28 with the software.
• 03:31 We can either filter these examples by a specific term, or
• 03:35 narrow them down by topic.
• 03:38 Let's say we're a health organization.
• 03:40 So we may be interested in looking at examples involving COVID.
• 03:45 We can click on that tag to view only those examples.
• 03:50 We could also look at examples in the health sector.
• 03:55 Choosing new health technologies for a hospital,
• 03:58 sounds like it could be really useful.
• 04:00 So, we'll click on that example to view more information.
• 04:05 This shows us the criteria, the costs and other considerations,
• 04:10 and the alternatives, which in this case are different proposals.
• 04:14 To take a closer look at this example,
• 04:17 we'll check the box next to its name and click on copy to your project.
• 04:24 In this case, let's create a new project.
• 04:28 Once we've done that, we can view this decision in more detail and
• 04:33 think about potentially adapting it to our organization's needs.
• 04:37 Now that we're more familiar with what a decision looks like, let's create our own.
• 04:44 One of the things that we want to find out is what hospital projects to allocate
• 04:48 our budget to.
• 04:50 To get started with this decision.
• 04:52 We can either click on new decision up here or
• 04:56 click on the project folder and create a new decision here.
• 05:00 A decision is used for prioritizing or choosing between alternatives,
• 05:05 and it can be done either alone or with a group.
• 05:10 If more than one person is involved,
• 05:12 then the participants make trade-offs together so as to facilitate discussion.
• 05:18 And 1000minds has a super cool voting feature built in,
• 05:22 that helps you make decisions together.
• 05:26 A survey is used more to gather people's preferences, usually for
• 05:31 market research or to gather opinions on categorizations.
• 05:35 Unlike in a decision, participants in a survey can respond to questions on
• 05:40 their own time, so it's less suited for discussion between participants.
• 05:46 Since our main objective in this case is to choose projects to allocate money to,
• 05:51 let's create a decision.
• 05:53 Later, we can use the voting feature in our decision to get the input
• 05:57 of our colleagues.
• 05:59 We'll call this decision, hospital projects to be funded.
• 06:04 And now we can get started on our decision.

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