SCAMPER YOUR WAY TO CREATIVITY

Here's a simple graphic rendition by Dilip Mukerjea of the 'SCAMPER' technique, originally developed by Bob Eberle in the sixties or so.

It's essentially a step-by-step checklist - a very good one - to help you gather more initial ideas to a specific problem, as it helps you to explore it from different angles, by going through a series of well defined action words, as follows:

S - Substitute: components, materials, or even people;

C - Combine: with other assemblies or services, or connect to some other problems or situations;

A - Adapt: usage or alter structure, or adjust properties, or amplify function, or absorb part of another component or situation;

M - Magnify: scale, or change existing shape &/or function, or modify existing attributes;

P - Put to other uses;

E - Eliminate: some elements, or simplify structure, or reduce to core functionality;

R - Rearrange: by turning inside out or upside down, or turning it around, like in a reverse order; how about recycle?;


Adapt


Adjust


Adopt


Absorb


Combine


Eliminate


Magnify


Modify


Put to Other Uses


Rearrange


Recyle


Reverse


Substitute


A quick graphic summary!

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