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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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Think Create Share – Team Building and Innovation Activity

Mike Cardus

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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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

Finding ‘What Works’ with Solution-Focused Consulting and Training is a quick walk on a long path. 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.

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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.

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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. The past and future are planning goals. Interested in learning how to use quality tools to solve problems and increase innovative planning within workplaces?

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

6) Institute modern methods of training on the job. 11) Train your people to follow the procedures but also to propose improvements if they don’t work. 10) Eliminate numerical goals for the workforce. Improvement and Innovation. 13) Institute a vigorous program of education and training. 19) Celebrate innovation.

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