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Thinking Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop Slides and Feedback

Mike Cardus

Mike is a talented consultant who learns from his experience working in a variety of industries and sectors and puts that knowledge to work when assisting clients. Getting re-engaged in the creative mindset. The exercises gave me the hands on learning that works best for me. engaging, good information, helpful.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. I’ve Been working on a series of workshops and consulting on innovation and developing a culture of innovation.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

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. Contact Mike and begin to create successes that lead to increased effectiveness of teams and leaders that result in improved productivity and people who love the work they do.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

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. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. 9) break down barriers between organizations.

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The Team / I have a Problem to The Team / I Have a Solution

Mike Cardus

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. Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems. How to have discussions to lead others to think differently.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data.