Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Leadership Agenda Leadership Coaching Management Manager Training Multi-Generational Training Organization Development Power Point Problem Solving Products Solution-Focused Speaking Engagement Successful Teams Team Building Team Building Activity Team Training enabling innovation solution focuced think (..)

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Speakers and organizations involved: Mark Mortenson , President & CEO, Buffalo Museum of Science. michael cardus creative problem solving creativity at work creativity to innovation creativity training buffalo ny innovation training buffalo ny innovation training rochester ny results based team building TRIZ training'

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Creativity Innovation TRIZ Seminar 135

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The focus on what’s wanted (not what’s wrong), what’s going well (rather than what’s gone badly) and practical progress (rather than explanatory theory) leads to a positive and pragmatic way to work with organizations and individuals. From [link]. What is the Miracle Question?

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2011

Using a mixture of TRIZ, creative problem solving and brain based leadership models, the participants find solutions to existing organizational situations. OBJECTIVES: Learn the 5 Roles of a Leader in a creative and innovative organization. The workshop is highly interactive and learner centered.

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Workshop Creativity TRIZ Innovation 92

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. Organization, Phone System, Internet, Transportation, Buyers, Wholesalers, Suppliers. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation. Super-System.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Working with an organization that employs over 2000 employees that was in need of a Managerial Leadership Training Program for their Director Level Staff. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

and I know with certainty they can work with your Mangers and Organization. Creating a renewed focus for each person to be working for shared values and commitment to the organization, teams, the community, stake holders, and each other. These consisted of various people from the organization. The methods and processes worked!

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Below is ONE Quality Tool commonly used in TRIZ that we used to begin in framing the context of our solution. One Solution Step was to create an internal Managerial Leadership Process, starting with the Managers and eventually being used in every level of the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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. I organized them in 8 simple theoretical and practical weekly sessions. 9) break down barriers between organizations. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. Business plan.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

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. Three out of the five days will be held at an organization where innovation and creativity is happening in real-time.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Here were some of the benefits from the talk; Determining where the organization currently is (Current Applied Capacity). Talking about the necessity of core pedagogy, while creating separate methods for innovative practices within the Organization, Classroom and personal levels. Setting action and ideas into what could be better.

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Innovation Quality Conference Skills 110

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

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. Challenge old ways of thinking and design new paradigms to drive greater success. Use existing resources to their greatest capacity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

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.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all have problems , every team has problems, every organization has problems I have yet to meet a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…. 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.

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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.

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus.

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Operations Cost Tools Innovation 112

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Last week, I was invited as a guest on PeopleMatters #TChat (Twitter chat) on the topic of developing critical thinking muscle within the organization and the role of learning and development. Q1: Why do you think Critical Thinking is an essential skill to be built across the organization in today’s context? – Tanmay Vora.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

If you work in any kind of manufacturing and now most healthcare organizations you have heard of the ‘5 Whys’. The 5 Whys is a question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem.

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Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157