Overview
The Creative Problem Solving Assistant transforms how you approach challenges by providing structured methodologies that turn obstacles into opportunities. Whether you're facing business roadblocks, seeking product innovations, or tackling personal projects, this assistant guides you through proven frameworks that generate practical, innovative solutions.
Five Powerful Problem-Solving Skills
SCAMPER Method
Value: Systematically transforms existing ideas or products by applying seven specific techniques (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, Reverse) to generate innovative alternatives. Best for: Product development, service improvement, and overcoming creative blocks.
Design Thinking Process
Value: Puts humans at the center of the solution by guiding you through a five-stage process that ensures solutions meet real user needs. Best for: User experience challenges, service design, and developing customer-centric solutions.
First Principles Thinking
Value: Breaks complex problems down to fundamental truths, eliminating assumptions to build revolutionary solutions from the ground up. Best for: Challenging established norms, solving seemingly impossible problems, and creating breakthrough innovations.
Six Thinking Hats
Value: Provides a comprehensive analysis by examining problems from six distinct perspectives (facts, emotions, risks, benefits, creativity, process), ensuring all angles are considered. Best for: Decision-making, reducing bias, and generating balanced solutions with teams.
Reverse Thinking
Value: Flips problems and assumptions upside down to reveal counterintuitive insights and unconventional solutions. Best for: Breaking through mental blocks, challenging assumptions, and finding innovative approaches when conventional methods have failed.
Getting Started
Define your challenge - Start by clearly articulating the problem you're trying to solve
Select the appropriate skill - Choose the methodology that best fits your specific challenge:
Need to improve something existing? → SCAMPER Method
Creating something based on user needs? → Design Thinking
Solving a complex or seemingly impossible problem? → First Principles
Making a decision requiring multiple perspectives? → Six Thinking Hats
Stuck in conventional thinking patterns? → Reverse Thinking
Follow the guided process - The assistant will walk you through each step of your chosen methodology
Document insights - Capture valuable ideas throughout the process, not just final solutions
Skill-Specific Implementation
SCAMPER Method: Describe your existing product, service, or process. The assistant systematically applies all seven techniques and helps you review generated ideas for the most promising options. Design Thinking: Share your challenge and user information. Progress through Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test stages, focusing especially on user needs during the Empathize stage. First Principles Thinking: Present your complex problem. Work with the assistant to identify and question assumptions, break down to fundamental truths, then build new solutions. Six Thinking Hats: Describe the situation requiring analysis. Work through all six perspectives (facts, emotions, risks, benefits, creativity, process) for balanced decision-making. Reverse Thinking: State your goal or problem. Explore inversions of your goal, assumptions, and perspectives to extract counterintuitive insights.
Optimization Tips
Provide context - Share relevant details about your industry, constraints, and previous attempts
Follow the full process - Resist skipping steps even if they seem less relevant initially
Combine methodologies - For complex challenges, use one skill followed by another (e.g., First Principles to break down assumptions, then SCAMPER to generate solutions)
Iterate - Return to the assistant with refined challenges based on initial insights
Be specific - The more specific your problem statement, the more targeted your solutions will be
Challenge yourself - Embrace uncomfortable or surprising perspectives that emerge during the process
Main Assistant
Business Challenges: _"Context: I'm a [role] at [company type] facing [situation] → Objective: I want to [specific goal] → Actions: Help me find creative solutions → Scenario: Currently [current state] and I've tried [previous attempts] → Task: Guide me through your problem-solving process"_
Personal Projects: _"Context: I'm dealing with [personal situation] → Objective: I need to [desired outcome] → Actions: Help me brainstorm solutions → Scenario: Right now [current state] with [constraints/timeline] → Task: Walk me through a structured approach"_
Skills
SCAMPER Method: _"Task: I want to improve [product/service/process] → Action: Help me transform this systematically → Goal: Generate fresh alternatives I can actually implement"_
Design Thinking: _"Action: Guide me through human-centered problem solving → Purpose: I need to solve [user/customer problem] → Execution: Walk me step-by-step from understanding users to testing solutions"_
First Principles: _"Task: I'm stuck on [complex challenge] → Action: Help me break this down to basics and rebuild → Goal: Find breakthrough solutions by questioning our assumptions"_
Six Thinking Hats: _"Action: Help me analyze this from every angle → Purpose: I need to [make decision/solve problem] → Execution: Guide me through different perspectives before I decide"_
Reverse Thinking: _"Task: I'm struggling with [challenge/goal] → Action: Help me flip this problem upside down → Goal: Discover unconventional approaches that might work better"_
Pro Tip
The more specific details you provide about your situation, constraints, and desired outcomes, the more targeted and actionable your solutions will be!
This versatile assistant empowers you to transform any challenge into breakthrough opportunities by applying proven problem-solving methodologies that turn obstacles into innovative solutions while maintaining focus on practical, implementable outcomes.
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