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Dhanalakshmi Dhanalakshmi, India
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Examples of Using Six Hats Thinking
Please give more examples about the 6 hats in different industries, especialy the IT field.

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  Brendan Dunphy Brendan Dunphy
Business Consultant, France
 
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Example of Six Thinking Hats : Technical Environment
I often use it with engineers and R&D managers to get them to focus away from their innate Black & White thinking and more on the Red, Yellow and Green. In my experience it can work for some but often their thinking is so ingrained over 20+ years, it is unrealistic to expect significant change, especially in a workshop setting where this is only a tool and not the reason for being there.

  Alpa Alpa, India
 
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Example of 6 Thinking Hats: Identifying Pros and Cons of IT Solutions
The use of this fantastic tool is not restricted to any process, team or specific work type. You can practically use it for anything from work to personal life as well. I have successfully used this in IT to identify the pros & cons of a specific improvement and why people think it would work or why it wouldn't. This helps eliminate bias in people's thoughts hence helping more structured & fruitful brainstorming.

  Gary Wong Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 
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Six Thinking Hat Example : Finding a Workaround for an IT Problem
The power of Six Thinking Hats comes in applying a hat sequence. Here's a short sequence to find an IT problem workaround. This works well when time is short. This process can be done in 10 minutes.
1. Blue (purpose): Let's quickly spend a few minutes together thinking about a workaround.
2. Green (ideas): Let's now list some ideas worth pursuing. Who's got one? Next? Next? Anymore? Okay, that's enough for now.
3. Yellow (positives): Let's briefly talk about the benefits of each idea. No judgment, no negatives today.
4.. Red (emotions): We will now vote on one using our intuitive gut feelings. Ready? Hands up for #1...#2...
5. White (info): Okay, we all feel #x is the way to go. We know it might not be the best solution but it's one that works for the time being. So let's lay out an action and do it!

  Stewart Stewart, Australia
 
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Finding a Workaround for an IT Problem
@Gary Wong: excellent with limited time, but well worth the efforts. Agree 100%.

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More on Six Thinking Hats
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topic Resolving a Business Argument: Conflict Resolution
topic Six Thinking Hats is a Synched Team Process
👀Examples of Using Six Hats Thinking
topic Situational Thinking Hats?
topic Telecom Example of Six Thinking Hats
topic Techniques for Real Dialogue in Organisations
topic Other Tools to Instill Constructive Participation: Soliloquy
topic The 6 Thinking Hats Facilitator: Wearing the Blue Hat
topic Facilitating Systematic, Deliberate Thinking is not Easy to Do
topic Conditions for 6 Thinking Hats. Assumptions
topic Tools to Consider and Develop Multiple Perspectives on an Issue
topic Challenging Plans or Ideas: The Ritual Dissent Approach
topic Six Thinking Hats is Parallel Thinking
topic 6 Thinking Hats are Rubbish
topic Avoiding Groupthink with 6 Thinking Hats Process
topic Business Conflict Resolution with 6 Thinking Hats and 7 Habits
topic Taking Advantage of Conflicts in Group Decision Making
topic Seventh Thinking Hat: Grey for Wisdom
topic Everybody Should Wear More than 1 Thinking Hat
topic Example Six Thinking Hats: Response to COVID-19
topic How to Facilitate Mutual Understanding Using 6 Thinking Hats
topic Seventh Thinking Hat: Orange for Results
topic Six Hats Great for Teaching at University
topic Six Thinking Hats for Software Testing at Google
topic Six Hats is Universally Applicable
topic Top Managers Should Switch Thinking Hats
topic Distorted Western Adversarial Thinking
topic Edward de Bono Obituary
topic Can Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Improve Thinking?
topic Six Thinking Hats Status and News
🔥 Using Six Thinking Hats as an AI or LLM Prompt
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