Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

The idea of using resources that you already have as building blocks to develop variations and growth, is something that amazes me. Taking existing skills, developing an understanding then moving into personal-mastery that leads to innovation. On to the inquiry: In what ways can we use / re-use existing resources?

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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. Use existing resources to their greatest capacity. Use existing resources to their greatest capacity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

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. . · Working with a financial service group that was facing the challenge of regulations changing the amount of fair-share revenue they could claim as their total profit.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. There is a need for management to utilize and develop a wider range of management, innovation tools and systems that can be utilized at the proper times.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. All of us have heard stories or seen images of resourcefulness under daunting constraints. One such collection of work alone looked at more than 500,000 patents and innovations.).

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

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

Mike Cardus

APRIL 15, 2011

This week I have been thinking about the Main Useful Function of various positions within organizations; What is the Main Useful Function of Human Resources, Quality Control, Engineering, Sales, Production, Management? Defining main useful functions for objects can be challenging. In community? michael cardus is create-learning.

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

Once our thinking freezes in place the friction of innovation and growth ceases to happen. Limited knowledge, hidden resources or mechanisms. The more experience we have, more reinforcement of psychological inertia, more belief in our constructs - which freezes our thinking in place. Specific terminology carries psychological inertia.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

APRIL 1, 2011

The ideal solutions are the ones that are able to solve themselves for free, using all the existing resources. How can the system solve the problem by itself, using only the available resources of the system, the immediate environment and free or inexpensive resources? Ideal Solution Statement. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Delegation Resources System Learning-by-Doing 98