Where to next?
Where to next?
SCAMPER is best used alongside other creativity techniques, as it is only one way to generate new ideas.
Once you have gathered enough ideas, you can review them and focus on a few promising ones.
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CREAMOS UN MAPA
Begin by typing in the name of your existing product or service
This is your starting point for new ideas. You will need to know it well enough to think about ways that it could be changed or used differently.
Reverse
Add some ideas based on reversing 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' in some way.
- What would happen if you reversed the steps in 'CREAMOS UN MAPA'?
- What would happen if it did the opposite of what it is supposed to?
- Could it create a need instead of fulfilling it?
- What would happen if people did the opposite of what you want or expect them to do?
Eliminate
Add some ideas based on eliminating 'CREAMOS UN MAPA'.
- What would people do if 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' did not exist?
- What would be the effect on existing users or customers if it disappeared?
- What would happen if you took out its best parts? Could the remainder achieve anything?
- Could you remove a part of its purpose or reason?
Put to another use
Add some ideas based on using 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' for a completely different purpose.
- Where could 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' be misused? Could you change it so it works there?
- What would it be least suited for? What changes would be needed to make it work there?
- Could it be mistaken for something else? What would happen then?
Modify
Add some ideas based on modifying 'CREAMOS UN MAPA'.
- How could you change the appearance of 'CREAMOS UN MAPA'?
- How could you make it less effective? What happens if you do the opposite?
- What would happen if you made it ten times bigger, smaller, longer, shorter, cheaper or more expensive?
- What would happen if you changed its weakest or strongest parts?
Adapt
Add some ideas based on adapting 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' for other purposes.
- What other purposes could you adapt 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' for?
- What is it similar to? Could it be adapted to solve the same problems that similar products and services do?
- What related problems or applications doesn't it address? Could it be adapted to include them?
Combine
Add some ideas based on combining 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' with other things.
- Could you combine 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' with another product or service?
- Could you combine its elements?
- Could you combine its purposes or effects with something else?
Substitute
Idea
Add some ideas based on substituting parts of 'CREAMOS UN MAPA' or even all of it.
- What materials or parts could be replaced with something else?
- What could be used instead of 'CREAMOS UN MAPA'?
- What people, places or times could be substituted for different ones?
- What assumptions could be replaced with different ones?
