Title Page
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Conducted on
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Facilitated by
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Location
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Project name
Thinking Proper
6 Thinking Hats
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Choose your hat
- Blue Hat - Conductor's Hat
- White Hat - Factual Hat
- Green Hat - Creative Hat
- Yellow Hat - Value Hat
- Red Hat - Intuitive Hat
- Black Hat - Cautious Hat
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What needs to be resolved?
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How should we define the problem?
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What are the goals or desired outcomes?
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How will the process of using each hat go?
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What kind of decision shall we arrive at?
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What data is available?
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What information is required?
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What information is missing?
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What needs to be done to gather such information?
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What questions need to be asked?
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Are there thought experiments we can do?
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Is it possible to explore new ideas or opportunities?
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What are the other options we have to carry this out?
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Are there any other scenarios we can consider based on this idea to come up with new insights?
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What kind of risks are we willing or able to accept?
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Are there any opportunities for the green hat to expand on to show a clearer way of achieving the desired outcomes?
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How can we lay down the factors that would make this idea beneficial or successful?
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How do we define success?
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How does this idea make our processes better?
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What are the potential long-term benefits?
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How do we feel about the possible choices we will make?
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What are our gut feelings about the idea we are proposing?
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What are our initial reactions?
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What kind of emotions does this idea bring out?
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What does our intuition say about the solution?
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What are the possible failure scenarios?
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How do we identify the idea’s fatal flaws?
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What are the potential risks and consequences we are likely to face?
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What are the reasons why we should not proceed?
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What might be the challenges along the way?
Completion
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Notes
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Recommendations and Next Steps
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Sign-off
