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SCAMPER Template

SCAMPER Template

This mind map helps you apply the SCAMPER lateral-thinking creativity technique to a product or service, to help generate ideas leading to new products or services.

Keywords: communication, SCAMPER technique, lateral-thinking, creativity, generate ideas

SCAMPER Template

The SCAMPER model

Generate ideas using the SCAMPER method. SCAMPER is an acronym and each letter stands for a creative thinking and problem-solving technique. These techniques are: substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse.

Type ideas in the template for each of them. Once you have gathered enough ideas you can start implementing them.

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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Product or service name

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 'Product or service name' in some way.

Eliminate

Add some ideas based on eliminating 'Product or service name'.

Put to another use

Add some ideas based on using 'Product or service name' for a completely different purpose.

Modify

Add some ideas based on modifying 'Product or service name'.

Adapt

Add some ideas based on adapting 'Product or service name' for other purposes.

Combine

Add some ideas based on combining 'Product or service name' with other things.

Substitute

Idea

Add some ideas based on substituting parts of 'Product or service name' or even all of it.

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