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REVERSE / REARRANGE

Generate ideas by asking what can be flipped, reversed, reordered, or rearranged.

Instructions

Challenge the current sequence, direction, or arrangement. Consider opposites, inversions, and new orderings.

Output Format

**Subject**: [What we're exploring]

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Current Arrangement

**Current sequence/order/direction**: 1. [First thing] 2. [Second thing] 3. [Third thing]

**Current roles**:

• [Who does what]

**Current flow**:

• [Direction of process/information/value]

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Reversal Ideas

Reverse the Sequence

| Current Order | Reversed Order | Possibility | |---------------|----------------|-------------| | [A → B → C] | [C → B → A] | [what it enables] | | [step 1 first] | [step 1 last] | [what it enables] |

Reverse the Roles

| Current Role | Reversed Role | Possibility | |--------------|---------------|-------------| | [X does Y] | [Y does X] | [what it enables] | | [Provider → Consumer] | [Consumer → Provider] | [what it enables] |

Reverse the Direction

| Current Flow | Reversed Flow | Possibility | |--------------|---------------|-------------| | [direction A] | [direction B] | [what it enables] | | [top-down] | [bottom-up] | [what it enables] |

Opposite Approach

| Current Approach | Opposite | Possibility | |------------------|----------|-------------| | [approach] | [opposite] | [insight] | | [approach] | [opposite] | [insight] |

Rearrangement

| Current Arrangement | Rearranged | Possibility | |--------------------|------------|-------------| | [layout] | [new layout] | [benefit] | | [structure] | [new structure] | [benefit] |

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Inversion Questions

**What if the customer did our job?** [Self-service possibility]

**What if we did what the customer does?** [Full-service possibility]

**What if we started at the end?** [Working backward]

**What if we did the opposite of industry standard?** [Contrarian approach]

**What if we inverted the business model?** [e.g., pay-what-you-want, freemium, reverse auction]

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Prompting Questions

• What if we did this backwards?
• What if we swapped roles?
• What if the sequence was reversed?
• What's the opposite approach?
• What if we turned it inside out?
• What if we started from the end goal?

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**Top Reversal Ideas** 1. [Best idea] 2. [Second idea] 3. [Third idea]

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