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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

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. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. Partner Separation. Bright :: Blurry :: Blind.

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Think Create Share – Team Building and Innovation Activity

Mike Cardus

Brainstorming is about open sharing, the goal is to get out as many ideas as possible. Sometimes we use the presentation concepts and discussion as a starting point for a TRIZ Structured Innovation Process. All phrases, terms, ideas, inspirations are great and try to write as many as possible. And start the 3 minutes.

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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. You can make it through the path and find your way easily, with little effort. Every time you walk the path…you find something that you did not see and perhaps understand before. Wikipedia.

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Favorites of 2011: Photos of Teams

Mike Cardus

From a workshop on TRIZ Innovation that I led for Syracuse University. What a great way to build a Virtual-Team by having a team member on skype while developing team Goals and Roles. The College at Brockport Physical Education Students and me, in a train-the-trainer program. 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. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation. The item being planned goes in the center box.

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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. 13) Institute a vigorous program of education and training. 18) Offer training to promote self-improvement.

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Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation

Mike Cardus

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.