Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Brainstorming is about open sharing, the goal is to get out as many ideas as possible. Ask people to get into teams of 3, if the numbers do not work out perfect a team of 2 or 4 is fine … 3 is ideal. Sometimes we use the presentation concepts and discussion as a starting point for a TRIZ Structured Innovation Process.

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

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

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. Wikipedia. This variation stemmed from my fear of using the miracle question and my knowledge that it works. With yourself? What ideas do you know work and are hesitant to try?

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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

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

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