Multiplication Strategy
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
The multiplication strategy creates new function or value by copying a component of the system and then varying it, changing its size, frequency, or position. As a scaffold it is copy plus variation equals innovation: you do not create from nothing, you innovate on the basis of existing elements by replicating them and changing the copy. It unites the earlier names of multiplication strategy and multiplication ideation.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Component list: write the system's core parts before you try to multiply anything. - Copy and vary: double, split, or reshape one part and see what changes. - Value check: keep only the variant that delivers a genuinely new function or value.
Anchor fast decisions
This is the Multiply move of SCAMPER: copy a component of the system and vary it, altering size, quantity, frequency, or position, which produces new function and value. Copy plus variation outperforms blank-page invention, because the variation already starts from something that works.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_inventive_thinkingverified
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