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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. 1.716.629.3678. 1.716.629.3678.

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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

Also, this may help to establish goals. The engineers had statistics, charts, specifications for all sorts of things…and I was there to facilitate the team through Innovation Models to develop a solution to this vibrating screw. Things are rough and I am not sure what innovation and problem-solving methods + models I can throw at you.

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Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation

Mike Cardus

Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation from Michael Cardus. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation. If you have no problems, you have no reason to innovate. How do you define innovation?

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Favorites of 2011: Photos of Teams

Mike Cardus

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester. From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester. 12/30/11 – Blog article.

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Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows

Mike Cardus

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. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. The past and future are planning goals. Contact Mike … to make your team better.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 10) Eliminate numerical goals for the workforce. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Improvement and Innovation.

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Building Critical Thinking Muscle: An L&D Mandate

QAspire

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. a) Leadership to Demonstrate open culture to challenge status quo b) L&D to Drive c) People to be naturally inquisitive! It is the leadership teams role. senior leadership and middle management – Tanmay Vora. – Tanmay Vora.

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