Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. Also, this may help to establish goals. Wikipedia.

TRIZ 146

TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When your project shows signs of trouble, go basic first. Having been a consultant/leader with a Big 4 firm, my project experience is extensive and varied. Project work sometimes got complicated, and we’d have to resort to heroic measures to finish. Sometimes people got burned out, but we delivered. How did I figure this out?

Project 28

Project Deming Root Cause Analysis RACI 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Critical players get pulled onto another project. In business, debriefing has been widely documented as critical to accelerating projects, innovating novel approaches, and hitting difficult objectives. You also may want to hold one after significant events or project milestones. What caused our results?

Tools 8

Tools Root Cause Analysis Team Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8