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How to use P in SCAMPER<br />

TWITTER SUMMARY<br />

Every idea, product, or service takes its meaning from the context in which you put it. Change the context, and<br />

you change the meaning.<br />

KEY IDEA<br />

If you can rid yourself of your stereotypes and preconceptions and look at your subject in a fresh, innocent<br />

way, you will begin to imagine what else you could do with it.<br />

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Are there new ways your subject could be used as is?<br />

How many different uses can you think of?<br />

Can you modify it in some fashion to fit a new use?<br />

Can you make it do more things?<br />

Can you find other functions? Purposes? Relationships?<br />

Can you imagine any extensions? Spinoffs?<br />

What uses would a twelve-­‐year-­‐old kid imagine?<br />

What’s currently being wasted that could be put to use?<br />

What else could be made from this subject?<br />

What happens when you put it in a different context?<br />

How might it be used in other markets? Other fields?<br />

Other regions? Other countries?<br />

Can you reduce your preconceptions about your subject?<br />

Rid yourself of stereotypes? Does this help you think of other uses?<br />

What is the most unconventional, unusual new use you can imagine?<br />

What’s the most bizarre new use you can think of?<br />

What’s the most practical? The silliest?<br />

How do you imagine people will be using your subject ten years from now?<br />

HOW TO USE THIS<br />

You may use this tool at any point in a creative-­‐thinking and problem-­‐solving situation, alone or in a group. This<br />

tool is part of the SCAMPER technique, which helps you explore problems holistically, from seven<br />

different perspectives. Selecting and answering the right questions from the above list will help you produce<br />

surprising and sometimes very useful results.<br />

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