Question

Innovation Class! I am having a hard time coming up with ideas for my innovation class. Can you help me brainstorm or offer a few ideas with the prompts below in mind? They need to be ideas rather than examples of things that are already in existence. Each idea needs to come from a separate prompt so if you can only think of an idea for one prompt, please still let me know your idea, I am grateful for any help I can get. Thank you so much!!
Prompts:


1. Substitute - Find a part or parts of an existing product or service and replace them for something else that makes the product/service serve a different purpose or work better for its current purpose.


2. Combine - Find two existing products or services and combine them to make a new product/service.


3. Adapt - Find an existing product/service that is targeted at a specific target market (for example, a product advertised for women specifically) and change that product in a way that makes it targeted at a different market.


4. Magnify/Minify - Find an existing product/service and make it smaller or larger. The new product/service could do something different than before or be targeted at a different audience than before.


5. Put to another use - Find an existing product/service and recycle it, so to speak. It should serve a completely different purpose now.


6. Eliminate - Take a part or parts of an existing product or service and eliminate them. The product should better serve its purpose or a different because of the elimination.


7. Rearrange - Find an existing service and rearrange the way it is completed. The customer could do part of it or the way it is completed could change.


Thank you so much for your help!!!

Answer 1

$\mathfrak{ 1. Create your own “Three Ifs”2. Practice dreaming3. Make time for cohesive creative thinking4. Learn to pitch your ideas (in an elevator)5. Bounce \: ideas \: off \: others}$