Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Planning for ‘ How to Think Differently to Drive Results ’ … a four-day creativity & innovation program that provides participants with a toolbox of methods and skills for creativity and innovation that are instantly transferable to their work. In the course we will dive deeper into a Structure Innovation Process.

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

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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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Also, this may help to establish goals. A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. 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.

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Perhaps the most kick-ass corporate team building photo I have ever seen! From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester.

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TRIZ Team Simon Workshop 110

Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2012

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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Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

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. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. The past and future are planning goals.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

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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Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157