Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Here are some links to the innovation activities that were part of a recent Thinking-Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop. Partner Separation. Bright :: Blurry :: Blind.

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

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

Innovation is a repeatable system-that-drives behavior in people, that are goal driven (by a Manager, themselves, or a customer), to fix an existing problem OR to fix an hypothesized future problem. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation.

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Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

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