Impact Explorer -
Business
Audience Response System
Rapidly evaluate ideas and issues in
business meetings and focus groups
Opinions are important, and gathering and taking note of opinions
rapidly is not always easy without a good tool to help. Impact
Explorer allows you to gather a group of people, from 3 to 500
in size, and find out what they feel about a subject. Whether
the group are experts in your organization, your customers, or
a management team, you can rapidly put together a list of topics
and use the various tools to find out valuable information.
 Impact
Explorer™ can be used for simple data gathering where the results
are not displayed, or it can be used as a focus for debate and
discussion. In the latter mode, you can identify disagreements
amongst the participants, and then discuss them to gain a better
understanding of the situation. Impact Explorer™ is designed
to be flexible - you can use it for impromptu meetings, or for
fully pre-prepared formal workshops. It can integrate with other
tools like PowerPoint® and Decision Explorer® for seamless operation,
and can use data from a variety of sources including disk and
clipboard. It doesn't get in the way when facilitating a workshop
- you do not have to remember to save results because it does
that for you automatically. At the end of the workshop, you can
generate a report with the results using Microsoft® Word or Excel,
saving you time typing the data in again.
You can use Impact Explorer™ as a stand alone tool or you
can use it with Banxia's Decision Explorer® software (an ideas
mapping package). With Decision
Explorer® as a public display a "map" of ideas about
(for example) potential risk factors can be shown. The group works
together with the easy to use electronic keypads to assess the
impact and probability of any potential risk. The keypads that
Impact Explorer™ uses are just like the ones you may have seen used on television
shows for audience participation. The keypads allow you to quickly
gather opinions from everyone involved in your meeting or event
and to see how their thoughts about risk factors vary.
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"I have used Impact Explorer™ in stakeholder
workshops for about two years and in locations from the Faroes
to Innsbruck. Our workshops cover topics such as predicting
effects of land use policies on landscapes, and selecting
priority indicators of environmental change. We usually use
a mixture of paper-based and electronic decision making, depending
on the workshop. Participants really enjoy interacting with
the keypad and computer display system, and it makes the event
memorable for them. Another major advantage for us is to be
able to easily track the initial scores of participants and
the revised scores after group discussion."
Neil Bayfield, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environment
Research Council.
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Low cost keypads available
With Impact Explorer™ 3, you can now obtain a complete
audience response system with software and 20 keypads for as little
as £1862! We now offer two types of wireless keypads
for your participants to use. See the wireless
keypads page for full details, and the pricing page for comparative
costs.
Windows Vista compatibility
Current shipping versions of Impact Explorer have been tested
against Windows Vista pre-releases and it will not currently operate.
We are working on this, and will provide a new release as soon
as possible. Upon general release of Vista, Banxia will be doing
extensive testing and will update this status information.
Version 3
Impact Explorer™ version 3 has new facilities to create an improved audience response system with a full agenda planner, improved PowerPoint integration, and demographic graph displays. See the new facilities page for details.
The key tools
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Q & A mode allows you to get feedback in a very flexible
multiple choice format. You specify the "question"
and the response choices that users can select from. While
a warm-up quiz is an obvious application, this is useful for
testing knowledge and for gathering opinions such as which
brand participants think of as the market leader.
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Matrix mode is used for two-dimensional assessments of elements.
This is particularly useful when considering issues such as
project risk/reward, cost/benefit, probability/impact, investment
(of time, money, man-power, emotion etc.) / value added; stability
/ sensitivity.
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Voting mode is used to obtain opinions about a number of
elements which might be people, places, events or other general
ideas using a range of values. For example, you might consider
how much resource should be allocated to possible activities.
You can use various scales, for example, 1 to 10, A to E,
yes/ no.
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Ranking mode is used to obtain first, second etc. preferences
from a list of options. For example, prioritizing the order
in which possible activities should be done.
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Each of these four tools, Q&A, voting, ranking and matrix assessment
is outlined in detail on the features pages.
Keypad choices
Impact Explorer™ supports two types of wireless keypads. Wireless
keypads allow maximum freedom and flexibility of operation, and
the different types provide a choice to fit budget and location
constraints.
Pricing for the Impact Explorer™ software is based on the
keypad capability purchased and the number of base stations in
use and starts from £964 for a complete 20 infra-red
keypad system. Radio based systems start at £1034. Rental
of a radio-keypad based system is also available for occasional
use.
The software can, depending on capability purchased, handle up
to 500 keypad response devices using one base station or receiver
set. The license for the Impact Explorer software can be purchased
separately from the keypad hardware if you already have compatible
keypads - contact us to confirm suitability. The Impact Explorer
pricing structure allows you to buy in at one level of capability,
and then upgrade your license to have higher level of capability
as the groups that you are working with get larger.
Click here for full pricing details.
Training courses
A training course introducing Impact Explorer™ and facilitation to professionals is now available.
Currently, there are no training events for this product.
Visit the the training events pages for details.
System requirements
Impact Explorer 3 requires Windows 98, 2000 or XP. (Windows
95 and NT are not supported.) A serial port will be needed to connect
the base station - a serial port adapter will work well for USB
laptops. You will usually need a projector to display the screen.
How to buy Impact Explorer
You can buy Impact Explorer™ and the keypads to go with
it on our
online shop or by emailing
or calling us to arrange invoicing and purchase orders. We can
supply any part of the system that you require, from an all-inclusive
package to individual components. Unlike many suppliers, we are
open about our pricing (see the pricing
page) so
you know the cost from the start with no hidden extras or bias.
Small orders are shipped from stock, larger orders may take a few
weeks on hardware delivery (call for details). We look forward
to hearing from you soon.
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Download a FREE demonstration
Demonstrations
are available for download. See the demo
pages
for details.
Training Events
We
run training events to introduce Impact Explorer™. Visit
the training events pages.
Option prices available online
We
have a simple pricing structure to help you get best value
for money to suit your requirements. See our pricing
page
for details.
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