Do you know you have a strategic consultant at your fingertips, for free?
Suppose you are a public health or pharma vaccine expert, tasked with addressing preventable diseases in low-income countries.
You can also apply Edward de Bono’s '6 thinking hats' approach to analyze this challenge from multiple angles, and then dig deeper.
The hats are:
1. White Hat: Focuses on objective thinking, facts, and feasibility.
2. Red Hat: Focuses on emotional thinking, subjective feelings, and intuition.
3. Black Hat: Focuses on critical thinking, skepticism, risks, and potential problems.
4. Yellow Hat: Focuses on optimistic thinking and best-case scenarios.
5. Green Hat: Focuses on creative and associative thinking, brainstorming, and new ideas.
6. Blue Hat: Focuses on structured thinking, management, and the big picture
Here is how:
1. Give your AI tool (ChatGPT, Co-pilot, ...) a role:
"You are a senior health advocacy expert."
2. Instruct it about your project:
"You are tasked with creating a strategy to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Bangladesh."
3. Apply the methodological framework:
"Use the 'thinking hats' approach to analyse the problem from multiple angles"
4. Focus on the outcome/results:
"Analyze these in conjunction with each other and choose the best solutions"
5. Request your preferred format:
"Use bullet points and put this all in a table."
The results are a good starting point so you can dig deeper on each.
As always, the more context you give in the form of background documents or instructions, the better (and more relevant) the results will be.
(I got an excellent result using o1 in ChatGPT.)
If you found this helpful, let me know. If not, add a comment below why.
...and if you'd like to train your team on how to do it professionally, just get in touch.
*This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.