Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. October 15 Quality Conference. October 16 Quality Seminars. I will be presenting 2 workshops at the ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference – October 15 & 16. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. October 15 Quality Conference.

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Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar 102

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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. plus many more I am not going to bore you with the entire list BUT you get the picture.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

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. Please share thoughts and what quality tools you use in the comments. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

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

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Quality tools are shown next to stages where they are most often useful but many tools can be used in many different stages of the model. 6) Institute modern methods of training on the job. 18) Offer training to promote self-improvement.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Quality is skilled knowledge of our practices; Quality is just what we do and what is expected from us. Innovation is about identifying outliers from our quality work to continually improve and strive towards potential.

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Innovation Quality Conference Skills 110

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