Thinking hats Technique

When you ve finished Idea Harvesting and Treatment, you should have increased the yield of viable ideas that can become solutions for your innovation opportunity. You can further evaluate these ideas using techniques like Six Thinking Hats (Technique 29) or Pugh Matrix (Technique 36). 

Although you can use Six Thinking Hats to generate ideas, it works equally well after you ve narrowed down the list of ideas to a couple of viable options. It can be tricky to keep the group on track, so you may consider additional training in this technique, or bringing in an experienced facilitator. 

Reason for the meeting, which includes a recap of the JTBD (see Jobs To Be Done, Technique 1), and the key idea(s) the team will evaluate using Six Thinking Hats. 

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