Creative Thinking for Lawyers & Law Firms

Creative Thinking for Lawyers & Law Firms

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If you want more ideas about creative thinking and problem solving, I highly recommend the book Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko. One of the techniques in the book is the “scamper” technique. Scamper is based on the idea that everything new is really just a modification of something that already exists. It is, in some ways, an expansion of Dan Kennedy’s notion of looking at something and trying to figure out how you can use it in another context; the scamper technique just gives you a blueprint for doing that.

Scamper stands for:

S = Substitute
C = Combine
A = Adapt
M = Magnify
P = Put to Other Uses
E = Eliminate (or Minify)
R = Rearrange (or Reverse)

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