![]() ![]() Much of what is being positioned as “Design Thinking” today actually comes from elsewhere. ![]() One does not have to be a methodology scholar to be respectfully doing that.įrankly speaking, it is really not possible to understand where design thinking is and isn’t today without cross community perspective. I point this out as it is useful, some might say necessary, to undertake some historical research when importing techniques from other knowledge communities in order to understand their original context, appreciate the original intentions etc. While many parallels exist, one is certainly not interchangeable with the other. For those who might not know these are two very different communities of knowledge…with very different timelines, heroes, orientation to challenges and methodology histories. SCAMPER originates in the Applied Creativity community (*1), not the design or design thinking communities. Since many of our readers/clients are innovation initiative leaders we thought it might be useful to you if we share a somewhat lost story regarding this thinking related subject.Īt Humantific we recognize SCAMPER as a basic idea prompting technique, (not a method) with a long history that seems to be not well understood in some communities of practice today. Inspired by a reoccurring question seen in one of the LinkedIn Design Thinking discussion groups regarding “SCAMPER” we decided to make this the focus of this week’s post. ![]()
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