{"id":1642,"date":"2012-02-22T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2012-02-22T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:24:00","slug":"s-c-a-m-p-e-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"S C A M P E R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From fellow author Michael Michalko&#8217;s &#8220;Creative Thinkering&#8221; A creative thinking technique that generates new ideas super fast = S.C.A.M.P.E.R.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are a metal paper clip manufacturer and want to improve the metal clip. What ideas can you create by asking the following SCAMPER questions:<\/p>\n<p>Can you <strong>S<\/strong>ubstitute something?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>C<\/strong>ombine it with something else?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>A<\/strong>dapt something to your subject?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>M<\/strong>agnify, Modify or add to it?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>P<\/strong>ut it to some other use?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>E<\/strong>liminate something from it?<br \/>\nCan you <strong>R<\/strong>earrange it?<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you reverse it?<\/p>\n<p>An example is to substitute plastic for metal, add color and produce plastic clips in various colors so that clipped papers could be color-coded, thereby creating another use for the simple paper clip.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder how this applies to improving one&#8217;s business skils such as inviting, demonstrating, presenting and other skills? <\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fellow author Michael Michalko&#8217;s &#8220;Creative Thinkering&#8221; A creative thinking technique that generates new ideas super fast = S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Imagine you are a metal paper clip manufacturer and want to improve the metal clip. What ideas can you create by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,266,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,265,28,36,126,254,31],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-creative-thinkering","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-michale-michalko","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}