SCAMPER

SCAMPER is s a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. 

SCAMPER is based on the notion that everything new is a modification of something that already exists. Each letter in the acronym represents a different way you can play with the characteristics of what is challenging you to trigger new ideas:

• S = Substitute
• C = Combine
• A = Adapt
• M = Magnify
• P = Put to Other Uses
• E = Eliminate 
• R = Rearrange (or Reverse)

Of late room 11 have been using the SCAMPER mind tool to improve a product that they use everyday e.g. pens, glue sticks, lunch boxes. The end results have seen products such as chairs, shoes, pencil cases, drink bottles, scooters and clocks take on some radical transformations in order to improve their functionality.