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What would you have in its place?<\/p>\n<p><strong>7- Reverse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What would happen if you reversed an assumption? <em>For examples all restaurants have menus can reverse to a unique restaurant with no menu &#8211; you can order your own dish<\/em><br \/>\nWhat roles could you reverse or swap? <em>Instead of the seller setting the price, how about the buyer setting the price? This is the reverse auction\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creativity and innovation tool called SCAMPER can help you to generate  a lot of ideas for for innovating your products and services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[37,52],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity-and-innovation","tag-creativity","tag-innovation","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}