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Smart Little People(SLP) in TRIZ also called as Moving Little Men(MLM) is a creativity tool that makes people to to think or analyze a problem in different way and come up with the most optimum solution. It is a technique that can be used with the separation principles or the 40 principles once the conflict has been identified especially a technique that is very useful in brainstorming sessions. The idea here is to break down the system into smaller parts or at micro level for a better understanding. In this technique one imagines the system that we are analyzing consists of many clever and brilliant people or miniature dwarfs and these dwarfs are assumed to have super natural capabilities that can fly, swim, run, jump, fight also appear and disappear, change size etc. As little people are assumed to have aforesaid features, it also helps the analysts or eases up the process of searching for solutions for a particular problem during the phase of diagram building by answering questions like 'What to do?' to avoid any conflicting situation. The answer to the question' How to do it' will be solved in the next stage of analysis using SLP. The SLP tool allows to explain the the conflict that is exists in a problematic situation, as is state also presentation of an ideal state of the process addressing the problem identified earlier. Approach (SLP Method is done in 4 simple steps): The above steps are applied in the below example: The Tipper Wagon Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Conclusion: Thus the SLP method is easy to use for Creativity and Idea Mapping during brain storming sessions making the problem solving exercise more fun, enjoyable and exciting as it is easy to understand for people coming from different educational and professional background.