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Sacrifice:
Remove an important part of your product and try to find a
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new value
for the invalid product.
Parasite Product:
Remove a part
from your product and replace it with an element from the
environment.
Unification: The Unification tool
is opposite to the Parasite tool. With Unification your product
fulfills the functions of other products (e.g. edible birthday
candles).
Multiplication: Create a virtual
product and then go out to discover the
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benefits. A virtual product
can be created by replacing a part of an existing product by a
similar, but different one. This technique helps create surprising
ideas and discover hidden
needs that the
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customer didn't know about
or couldn't communicate.
Division: Separate all the
elements and then reorganize them in a new structure.
Breaking Symmetry: Identify the
symmetries in your product and try to reorganize it by breaking the
symmetries one after another in a
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