How does Mindhive work?
When we have conversations with people about Mindhive, they often try to understand us by reference to something they already know.
Here are some of our favourites:
Slack on Steroids
Air BnB for Brains
Wikipedia meets Open Source
Collaboration as a Service
We love all of these suggestions! But the truth is that we are unique.
Mindhive’s key distinguishing feature is its purpose. Mindhive is built to solve problems. It’s a process that involves both art and science. Our platform provides so much more than the plumbing. It actively supports the work flow involved in solving a problem.
Einstein once said that if he had only an hour to solve a problem, he would spent 55 minutes thinking about the problem and only 5 minutes thinking about the solutions.
Mindhive’s process supports problem solving along the same lines as the highly respected British Design Council’s double diamond design and IDEO’s design thinking.
Our process involves the following key stages:
Engage
Explore
Refine
Ideate
Test
Conclude
Here’s a little more information about what happens at each stage in the process on the Mindhive platform
1. Engage
Choose an initial headline and photo
Craft an initial problem statement in overview form
Upload resources
Invite the crowd guided by our match-making algorithm
2. Explore
Spark discussion
Experts originate comments and interact with each other in discussion threads
Unlimited discussion and comment to enable assumptions to be exposed and challenged and to allow both broad and deep consideration of the problem
Discussion and comments are organised and tracked
Options for light engagement e.g. Like
3. Refine
Key remarks in the discussion are highlighted
Key comments are copied onto an insight card
The search for meaning begins
Big picture insights (or highlights) begin to emerge
The refining process is organised using the cards
4. Ideate
Ideas emerge and are exposed to the crowd
The insight cards are labelled with the big ideas
5. Test
The crowd votes for its Top 3 ideas
6. Conclude
An overall conclusion is reached about the solution to the problem
The conclusion contains actionable insights
Participants are thanked
Participants are rewarded
Our platform is secure and compliant. It’s highly scalable with everything in the Cloud. There is no installation or other setup required. You just sign up for an account and you are good to go.
You can choose to keep your work private and to select who participates if you have a paid Premium account.
If you want the help of the crowd, you have 9,000+ folks (and growing) already there ready to go with an in-built intelligent match-making system (a bit like online dating) to guide you towards the most relevant people. Through tokenisation, the platform tracks people’s contributions (for insightfulness and impact) and provides recognition and rewards back to them.
Mindhive has network effects and gets smarter over time. Mindhive is training AI and bots to boost the human brain power on the platform because you can’t solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s tools.
Mindhive is democratising access to insights and delivering them at speed and at scale for no or low cost. It’s a consultancy platform that does not employ consultants. This makes us affordable for NFPs and SMEs.
We’ve been working with governments, universities and peak bodies for several years. They love using our platform for research, policy and advocacy work.
Our latest and most exciting work is with corporates who understand that we are redefining consulting. We deliver insights – at speed and at scale – that cannot be matched elsewhere.
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Mindhive is a platform that facilitates discussion on topics that affect you – and what we can do about it.
Join a discussion and lend your voice
Mindhive is used in research, government, community groups and consultancies to canvas a wide spectrum of voices to surface sentiment, insight, and the unexpected.