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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Innovation, change, the ability to notice patterns, and try unique or novel approaches will continue to be a differentiator in your organization , team, and self. In a recent webinar on change and innovation , I shared processes and ways to support innovation in your work : . Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness.

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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. Smaller company, Less need for product, Only phones No Internet, Sold-Directly to Customer. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data. One such collection of work alone looked at more than 500,000 patents and innovations.).

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix.

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