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. Things are rough and I am not sure what innovation and problem-solving methods + models I can throw at you.

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

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

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?

Operations 104

Operations Tools Quality TRIZ 104

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

Case Study 116

Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

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

JANUARY 21, 2013

Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. What are some of your favorite innovation tools? Interested in learning how to use Innovation Tools to solve problems and increase the effectiveness of planning within workplaces?

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Operations Cost Tools Innovation 112

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How to apply the model. The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28