- Take a product,
- Tear it down into its parts (not really, we just describing them),
- Manipulate those parts (one of the five SIT techniques),
- See if we can make some value out of the new product (THE creative step).
1. Let's take a product, a coffee mug for example.
2. A mug (or any object for that matter) has two kind of parts, internal and external parts:
The internal parts of a mug are:
- the bottom,
- the cylinder,
- the ear,
- a picture, text or the like on the mug.
The external parts are in fact endless, they describe the surrounding world of a mug:
- spoon
- coffee
- cocoa
- cinnamon
- water
- milk
- sugar
- tea
- biscuit
- table
- laptop
- book
- game
- newspaper
- coffee machine
- kettle
- cupboard
- dishwasher
- tray
- kitchen
- living room
- breakfast
- coffee time
- lunch
- after dinner
- coffee beans
- coffee plantation
- etcetera
SIT concentrates in the first place on the controllable internal parts.
3. Now we come to manipulating the (internal) parts. Five kinds of manipulations cover 70% of the innovations. Those five kinds are:
- removing and replacing,
- multiplying,
- merging,
- dividing and rearranging,
- changing dependencies.
Removing the bottom of a coffee mug, what value can be in there?
4. Be creative!
4. Be creative!
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