Think Out of The Box Quotes

“Actually, your mind has an unlimited potential that needs to be tapped by asking the right set of questions and the SCAMPER method does the very same thing by asking different set of questions in an intelligent manner. SCAMPER offers subtle cues or triggers that trigger your mind to come out with various alternatives.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Advertising and inviting customers to visit your café.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Finding out the best location for your business and getting the best deal for lease.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Negotiating a good deal with the franchisor and sign the agreement.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Researching a café franchise or brand”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“How to use SCAMPER Technique Step 1: You have to isolate your challenge into different parts or stages. Step 2: After that, apply each of the seven elements of the SCAMPER method to each of the stages of your project for asking questions and generating ideas.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“S = Substitute something C =Combine it with something else A = Adapt something to it M = Modify or Magnify it P = Put it to some different use E = Eliminate something R = Reverse Engineer it.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Bob Eberle in his book, SCAMPER: Games for Imagination Development.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Do SCAMPER to get Loads of Ideas Instantly The SCAMPER method offers you a checklist for idea-spurring questions. It provides a structured way of assisting students to think out of the box.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Once you have multiple ideas appearing on paper in front of you, you start to build connection, and this will help you come out with a unique combination that you couldn’t have thought of, had you not been able to see all of them together at one place.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“You begin with your challenge or problem and start drawing branches of interconnected ideas related to that topic that can be shown as words or images.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page (i.e., your key challenge), to which representations of ideas such as images, words, and parts of words are added as branches to the central idea.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“One of the best ways to fuse ideas is to do it by way of mind mapping, a technique invented by Tony Buzan, a brain expert, and author.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“while the left hemisphere is more responsible for doing analytical work.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“to see the broad pattern instead of seeing the specific answers, and to invent something new by combining something that wasn’t paired by someone else earlier.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Generating ideas is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze. It’s all about seeing the relationship between unrelated things;”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before, and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Let’s take another real-life example. Scott Adams, author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“It’s a great example of synthesizing ideas and relationship between unrelated things – like a chair, wheel, and basket and combining them to form a moving shopping cart.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“How fusion of different idea works?”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Also, logistically, it's much easier to improve on somebody else's idea than it is to create something entirely new from scratch. Therefore, to be creative thinker, you don't have to be first. You just have to be different and better.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“There was a case study done on 50 different products to compare the failure rate amongst the startups, who were the first movers, i.e., who created an entirely new product or market, and the improvers who introduced something different and better than the original movers. The study concluded that the first movers had an average failure rate of 47%, as compared to the improvers, whose failure rate was 8% only.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Rather, the people or companies who improve on the existing projects get better chances of success.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“It’s not always a brand new innovative idea that flourishes versus the people who make improvements over the previous innovations.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“No, Lycos (1993) and Yahoo (1994) and few others were pre-existing. But again, Google applied some more improvements over the previous ones. For example, adding the feature of filtering out the relevancy and utility from the user’s perspective and adding some other features available, so it became a grand success.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Was Google a novel idea to become a hit in 1996 as a search engine?”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“No, there were already Friendster and Myspace. But Facebook made a different combination of features, user interface, and engagement algorithms that made them a highly profitable business idea.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Was Facebook a brand new earth-shattering idea?”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“We give them a turn, and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top