Ideation and prioritization powered by collective intelligence
Usage & Benefits
Collect and prioritize a large number of ideas quickly and efficiently:
Strategic priorities
Risks and opportunities
New products and services
New work procedures
Tap into the creativity and acuity of all stakeholders closest to the problems.
Consolidate their dispersed knowledge from the bottom up.
Aligning all stakeholders around actionable ideas surfaced with an inclusive process.
Reveal disagreements among cohorts that could potentially derail the successful implementation of promising ideas.
Service
License and deploy our full-featured crowd-storming platform.
The platform is designed for both mobile and desktop usage.
Operate gamified ideation / prioritization challenges with as many participants as you can recruit within your community.
Challenges can run for just a few hours, or up to several months.
View or download rich prioritization data.
Hypermind provides hosting, technical support.
Hypermind offers training or support in content administration and reporting.
Crowd-Storming Process
1) IDEATION - Participants are asked to propose solutions to specific problems. The propositions must follow a bespoke template for ease of comparison. Each proposition is augmented with a forum where other participants can discuss the idea with its author. Depending on the use case, the propositions may also be anonymous, or team based.
2) PRIORITIZATION - Participants are asked to select, among all the proposed solutions, the few that are most likely or least likely to succeed. They do this by distributing a small number of tokens over many of proposed ideas. They must be extremely selective and focus only on the best and worst ideas. They are also invited to briefly comment on their choices.
3) EVALUATION - Decision makers rate the most interesting ideas surfaced buy the collective priorities:
Consensual ideas are immediately actionable
Controversial ideas may be highly disruptive
Prediction vs preference: To ensure that the opinions of participants are most useful to decision makers, Storm does not solicit their personal preferences (via votes or “likes”) but rather their best guesses on the chances of success for each idea, with rewards for correct predictions.* This promotes higher levels of participation, engagement, and collective intelligence.
* Storm's first use case of this innovative approach with InterContinental Hotels Group was documented by the New York Times in 2008.
Get instant insights in the shape of priority tables and charts. Ideas are classified into 4 main categories:
HIGH PRIORITY ideas judged most likely to succeed by a significant consensus.
==> They are immediately actionable.
LOW PRIORITY ideas judged least likely to succeed by a significant consensus.
==> They can be safely discarded.
CONTROVERSIAL ideas about which significant cohorts disagree.
==> They could be highly disruptive and need to be discussed further.
UNINTERESTING ideas that have not attracted enough interest (pro or con) to be classified otherwise.
==> They can safely be ignored.
Deliverables
Full-featured crowd-storming platform for mobile & desktop
Full online and offline reporting of data-rich results:
Loads of creative ideas from your community
Consolidated priority judgments and rationales
Bayesian measures of consensus and controversy
Segmentation of the data per participant cohorts of your choosing
Cloud delivery or on-premise installation
Single Sign On integration
Other features include:
Participation progress dashboard
Live online charting of the priorities per cohort
Leader boards for best ideas and best priority judgments
Bilingual user interface in English and French