Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering. Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. Three out of the five days will be held at an organization where innovation and creativity is happening in real-time.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. Share information amongst and between functions to reduce redundant work and speed productivity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2011

Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Each window is reviewed on time-scales to best plan for future solutions and ideal outcomes to ensure that the system, super-system and sub-system develop to achieve the ideal solutions.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? What do users across the world really want, how can we uncover and design for their unmet needs, and what services can we attach to products to stay close to our customers? Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

The idea of using resources that you already have as building blocks to develop variations and growth, is something that amazes me. Taking existing skills, developing an understanding then moving into personal-mastery that leads to innovation. What are you already doing that is innovative with what you have?

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data. One such collection of work alone looked at more than 500,000 patents and innovations.).

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Last week, I was invited as a guest on PeopleMatters #TChat (Twitter chat) on the topic of developing critical thinking muscle within the organization and the role of learning and development. Q2:How can Critical Thinking be developed? Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70