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<h2 id="method">Method</h2> <p>It involves sequential thinking to analyse a problem, generate ideas, evaluate ideas, construct and critique a plan of action. The four thinking styles are – outsiders, dreamers, realisers, and critics: </p> <ol><li>In the first thinking style the group thinks as "outsiders" to gain an analytical, external view of the challenge.</li> <li></li> <li>They then act as "dreamers" to brainstorm ideal solutions. They use divergent thinking to conceive creative and radical ideas.</li> <li></li> <li>In the next mode the group adopts a "realiser" viewpoint. They act as pragmatic realists and use convergent thinking to review the ideas left by the dreamers. They select the best idea and construct a plan for it.</li> <li></li> <li>The fourth viewpoint is that of "critics". They review the plan made by the realists in order to identify weaknesses, obstacles or risks. They seek to improve the plan.</li></ol> <p>IGD Learning in "Working collaboratively: The Disney Method Strategy"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> breaks down these parts and how they can be implemented in the workforce: </p> <ul><li>When you are a "Dreamer" you are creative, passionate, think of the big picture, letting your imagination run, lay it all out and allow yourself to think big.</li></ul> <ul><li>When you are a "Realist" you are thinking more logically, narrow ideas to a short list, take the best idea, create an action plan to apply idea into reality.</li></ul> <ul><li>When you are a "Critic" you are thinking more critically, what obstacles will you face, what things could go wrong having heard the action plan and what the dreamer wants, break it down.</li></ul> <h2 id="similar-methods">Similar methods</h2> <p>The method is comparable to and an alternative to <a href="/facts/Edward_de_Bono/PTdEKoka">de Bono's</a> method of the <a href="/facts/Six_Thinking_Hats/yMhp12T2">Six Thinking Hats</a>. The difference is, that in the Disney method the sequence is constant, whereas the Six Thinking Hats can be used in any appropriate order. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061231064854/http://www.resources.scalingtheheights.com/disney_method.htm">Disney Method on Scalingtheheights</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE2fZYTdIqA">Slideshow</a> by Paul Sloane on Disney Method on YouTube</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOBk0filqs">Working collaboratively</a>: The Disney Strategy on YouTube</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Working collaboratively: The Disney Method Strategy. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOBk0filqs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOBk0filqs</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>