The Disney Method, referring to the Walt Disney Creative Strategy, was further developed by Robert Dilts in 1994, in which four different thinking styles are used in turn, and repeated in a cycle until the necessary goals have been adequately fulfilled.
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: IGD Learning in "Working collaboratively: The Disney Method Strategy"[1] breaks down these parts and how they can be implemented in the workforce: The method is comparable to and an alternative to de Bono's method of the Six Thinking Hats.
The difference is, that in the Disney method the sequence is constant, whereas the Six Thinking Hats can be used in any appropriate order.