Coaching practices for Scamper a Systematic Creativity Technique as a Parent

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • This has slowly piled up with so many steps and features that it feels heavy, and I’m sure some of them are just there out of habit
  • I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
  • I keep treating one piece of this as a given
  • Everything I make now has to justify itself
  • I need to come up with a whole range of options — names, angles, ways in — and staring at the blank page I keep circling the same two or three.

Practices that may help

  1. SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
    SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
  2. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  3. Adapt
    Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  4. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  5. Keep side projects and play
    Protect a low-stakes project with no goal — the “waste” is where the real ideas surface.
    Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
  6. Walk to generate ideas (divergent thinking)
    When you need many options, walk while you brainstorm.
    Walking for Creativity
  7. Use SCAMPER and other prompts to vary ideas
    Apply structured prompts (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, etc.) to push ideas in new directions.
    Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
  8. Reverse and Rearrange
    Ask: what if the sequence were inverted, the roles were swapped, or the normal order were reversed?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  9. Harvest and cluster ideas after the session
    The generation phase is worthless without a systematic harvest: sort, name, and prioritize the output.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
  10. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
    The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
    Morphological Analysis, Made Practical

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