Direct Answer
Asking 10,000 employees a single open-ended question is only possible if you separate the discovery of ideas from their prioritization. Attempting to review thousands of raw submissions manually leads to immediate information decay and analysis paralysis. The only scalable way is to have the entire group submit independent inputs simultaneously, filter out the duplicate noise, and run a live vote on the unique options.
Why It Matters
Traditional async surveys create massive backlogs of unstructured text that take weeks to compile, by which time the ground reality has already changed. Live all-hands meetings fail because the microphone can only capture a few vocal individuals, creating a severe information filter problem.
How Deciqe Approaches It
Deciqe was designed specifically for open-ended questions at scale. It replaces traditional surveys and open microphones with a structured, simultaneous writing phase. In a live session, thousands of employees write their observations concurrently, unique themes are exposed in seconds, and a live vote ranks them immediately—converting what would have been a month-long analysis project into a prioritized decision in minutes.