Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The engineers had statistics, charts, specifications for all sorts of things…and I was there to facilitate the team through Innovation Models to develop a solution to this vibrating screw. At the end of day 3 we were all losing patience and we felt it was hopeless…so I said f**k it and tried the following version of the Miracle Question.

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. Consider ideas created by DTC extremes: Dimensions: If dimensions were extremely large what would success look like, how would that happen, in what way could that system be developed?

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Operations Tools Quality TRIZ 104

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. Each window is reviewed on time-scales to best plan for future solutions and ideal outcomes to ensure that the system, super-system and sub-system develop to achieve the ideal solutions.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. In addition to broadening their personal capacity for creativity and innovation, leaders are better able to implement innovative ideas into their existing business model.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process. OR If speed were extremely slow what would success look like, how would that happen, in what ways could that system be developed?

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

We developed a small lexicon of terms that represent a wide spectrum of innovation activities outside of the core R&D and patent area. For example you can see in this chart indicating regional interest (below), the prominence of the search term "creative talent" in the US especially. Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. Of the 40 methods spelled out by the TRIZ approach, 8 involve what we would term scarcity.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

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. That’s in this video.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. You are bound by individual construct of reality. This is the continual practices, prejudices, experiences and beliefs (false and true) you contain within your brain.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 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. Q2:How can Critical Thinking be developed? Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

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