Scamper

General Information

Name	Scamper
Abbreviation	SCA
Learning Cost	120
Playing Cost	250
Suggested Phases	1,2

Engineers

Mechanical Engineer	Industrial Design	System Engineer	Electrical Engineer	Production Engineer	Software Engineer
✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Technique and Issue Views

BusinessNeeds	Stakeholder	Stakeholder Needs	System Requirements	System Structure Architecture
✗	✗	✗	✔	✔

System Functional Architecture	Detail Hardware Design	Detail Service Design	Detail Software Design	Manufacturing Operations
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Technique Traits

Identify Stakeholders	Elicit Needs	Remove Ambiguity	Layman's Terms	Technical Terms	Teamworkings
1	2	1	0	0	1
Traceability	Prioritizing	Exploring Breadth	Inside the Box	Outside the box	V&V
2	3	4	2	1	2

Verification and Validation

Analysis	Calculus	Inspection	Demonstration	Test
✗	✗	✗	✗	✗

Description

Proposed by Alex Faickney Osborn in 1953, but only further developed in the early ‘70s [1] the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. technique is an activity-based thinking process that helps with creative thinking and finding out of the box solutions.

SCAMPER is an acronym for a series of words:

-Substitute: Comes Up With Another Topic That Is Equivalent To The Present Topic. -Combine: Adds Information To The Original Topic. -Adjust: Identifies Ways To Construct The Topic In A More Flexible And Adjusted Material. -Modify, Magnify, Minify: Creatively Changes The Topic Or Makes A Feature/Idea Bigger Or Smaller. -Put To Other Uses: Identifies The Possible Scenarios And Situations Where This Topic Can Be Used. -Eliminate: Removes Ideas Or Elements From The Topic That Are Not Valuable. :Reverse, Rearrange: Evolves A New Concept From The Original Concept. [2]