Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. Share information amongst and between functions to reduce redundant work and speed productivity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

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. 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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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program. Interested in your organization or team having a success story? michael cardus is create-learning.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? What do users across the world really want, how can we uncover and design for their unmet needs, and what services can we attach to products to stay close to our customers? Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

Is there a structured thinking process that reliably produces results? 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. But only a small subset of these processes for inventing are based on hard evidence.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

Much of my work with Innovation stems from organizations, teams, as well as individuals taking what they already know and allowing themselves to make small adjustments towards new and improved products, processes and services. What are you already doing that is innovative with what you have? That’s in this video.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions.

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Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 128

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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. Processes. 10) Design your processes to be mistake proof. Processes.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. Who is the owner and stakeholders involved in this process of infusing Critical Thinking across the organization? A5 An organization with critical thinkers is likely to be more collaborative, strategic, innovative, make better decisions & grow well.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70