Systematic Inventive Thinking
Updated 2026-08-09
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Systematic Inventive Thinking is an innovation methodology built on the claim that novelty comes from structured change rather than free inspiration. It offers five templates: Subtraction, removing a core component; Task Unification, assigning a component an additional job; Attribute Dependency, creating relationships between attributes; Multiplication, copying a component and altering the copy; and Division, rearranging components. Applied to an existing product, each template forces a structural change, and odd results are treated as starting points to be mined for value rather than discarded.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Use template sweep: apply each of the five SIT templates to the product in turn. - Use component list: inventory parts and attributes before changing any of them. - Use odd-result mining: treat strange outputs as seeds and search for real value.
Anchor fast decisions
Innovation is treated as systematically generatable inside the box rather than as random inspiration. The five templates force structural changes that break functional fixedness, and because each produces a concept rather than a finished answer, apparently flawed results are reversed into plausible uses, which is where breakthroughs often appear.
MINIMUM ACTION
In progress 0/1Practice this model in one real situation:
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