Think Inside The Box
People often talk about think outside the box, but not think inside the box. The power of Think Inside The Box - What it is and When to do it
Apply Thinking Tools:
- Subtraction Elimination of an existing core or essential component
- Task Unification Assigning another task (in addition to what it was designed to do) to an existing component
- Division Divide a component along with physical or temporal space and rearrange it back into the product
- Multiplication Copy an already existing component and changing in some novel / counterintuitive way
- Attribute Dependency Modify the correlation between two attributes of a product