| 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 |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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 |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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]
