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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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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

From a workshop on TRIZ Innovation that I led for Syracuse University. I thought this idea was rather innovative and did solve the problem we were facing. What a great way to build a Virtual-Team by having a team member on skype while developing team Goals and Roles. High Ropes Course. A crushed Marshmallow Tower.

TRIZ 110
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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 10) Eliminate numerical goals for the workforce. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools. 19) Celebrate 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. Managers, leaders & each individual. Managers as coaches. senior leadership and middle management – Tanmay Vora. Managing resistance – Critical thinking isn’t easy and doesn’t come to everyone naturally.

TRIZ 70
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5 Whys; Kind-of Useful for Technical Problems. Trouble for Team Problems

Mike Cardus

The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem. The goal of asking why 5 times is not to p**s everyone off but to find the root cause of the problem and by finding the root cause we can fix the problem.

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