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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Using the same strategy. Several years ago, while learning about TRIZ , I came across Nine Windows. I’ve used it several times with individuals, teams, departments, and organization development. Experience, expertise, and reliance upon previous results. Limited knowledge, hidden resources, or mechanisms.

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The Global Innovation Interest Index

Harvard Business Review

We developed a small lexicon of terms that represent a wide spectrum of innovation activities outside of the core R&D and patent area. TRIZ is a technique for orienting companies to future economic states as a starting point for invention today, and is widely deployed across Asia by companies like Samsung.

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8 Routine Causes of Psychological Constipation

Mike Cardus

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. Using the same strategy. 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. Experience, expertise and reliance upon previous results. image by Abulic Monkey.

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Building Critical Thinking Muscle: An L&D Mandate

QAspire

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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