A great tool to develop new ideas, is SCAMPER. This easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tool helps you develop novel ways to reimagine a product or process rather than recycling the same old “ingredients”. SCAMPER allows you to rearrange existing variables into new combinations.

The SCAMPER mnemonic stands for: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Reverse. SCAMPER allows you to think creatively using multiple perspectives to improve products, develop solutions to problems, or expand new ideas.