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Managerial Leadership Training Tool: Using DTC Operator Innovation Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – and at the same time, reduce operating time and costs. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Diminished “stuckness” in your thinking.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Partner Separation. Bright :: Blurry :: Blind. Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows.

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Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently

Mike Cardus

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. What do you think?

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Working with an organization that employs over 2000 employees that was in need of a Managerial Leadership Training Program for their Director Level Staff. Organizational Development Work.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. 6) Institute modern methods of training on the job. 13) Institute a vigorous program of education and training.

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