Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Planning for ‘ How to Think Differently to Drive Results ’ … a four-day creativity & innovation program that provides participants with a toolbox of methods and skills for creativity and innovation that are instantly transferable to their work. CONTACT mike@create-learning.com 1-716-629-3678.

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Creative thinking is a critical skill required by all people within their roles at work, yet it is generally done by trial and error – the thinker creates an idea and determines if it will work – which is basically guessing.

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. To effectively transfer your creative ideas into innovative solutions. Contact Mike.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 100

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

How could you use a variation of the Miracle Question with your team? With yourself? What ideas do you know work and are hesitant to try? michael cardus is create-learning.

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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. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. The DTC Operator Algorithm. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest.

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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. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 12, 2012

inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity Tina Seelig HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (2012) How and why the tools and techniques of creative thinking are as essential to invention as the scientific method is to discovery There are six components that comprise what Tina Seelig characterizes as an “Innovation Engine.”

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Review Engineering Books Creativity 139

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 129

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. 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. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ?

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

For example you can see in this chart indicating regional interest (below), the prominence of the search term "creative talent" in the US especially. Creative talent" is represented by the orange bar, whereas the red bar represents the term "innovation process" and the blue "innovation and creativity.".

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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

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems. How to have discussions to lead others to think differently. Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes.

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Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 129

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

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. Critical thinking and creative problem solving are intricately linked – drivers of innovation. A2 Beyond training, experiential learning sessions & workshops involving problem solving, thinking and writing helps. – Tanmay Vora.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Innovation & 21st Century Learning. View more presentations from michael cardus. I had the honor of giving a speech to Nardin Academy sharing some insight and lessons on Innovation and how it is or is not connected to 21st century learning.

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Innovation Quality Conference Skills 110

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.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 123

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

DEFINITION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA. The psychological meaning of the word "inertia" implies an indisposition to change – a certain "stuckness" due to human programming. It represents the inevitability of behaving in a certain way – the way that has been indelibly inscribed somewhere in the brain.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

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. If you work in any kind of manufacturing and now most healthcare organizations you have heard of the ‘5 Whys’.

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Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157