SCAMPER   
This technique is used to brainstorm your ideas.  It was developed by Bob Eberle.  By using this brainstorming process, SCAMPERing can add fluency, flexibilty, originality, and elaboration to any idea. 
 
S    Substitute          Is something like anything else?  What similarities
                                    do you see? Who or what might be substituted?
C    Combine           What might be brought together to combine
                                    some this with something else?
A    Adjust               What might you change by adjusting your idea?
M Magnify  
       Minify
       Modify 
What might be made larger, smaller or altered to change the form or quality?
 
  Put to Other Uses        In what different ways might this be used?
 
E Eliminate
      Elaborate 
What could be deleted, removed, or done away with?  What added to, enhanced, made fancier, etc.? 

R   Reverse          What might be put into another order?
       Rearrange
 
 

Fluency and Flexibility  Teamwork
SCAMPER Elaboration
Originality Beyond
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