Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Below are two short success stories. Financial Services Group.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester. From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester. 12/30/11 – Blog article.

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TRIZ Team Simon Workshop 110

Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2012

Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation from Michael Cardus. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation. If you have no problems, you have no reason to innovate. How do you define innovation?

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Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Thinking Through Innovation. 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.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Innovation & 21st Century Learning. 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. Identifying blocks to innovation. Learning a method to overcome the innovation blocks and grow the school to reach its potential.

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Innovation Quality Conference Skills 110

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. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 6) Institute modern methods of training on the job. 11) Train your people to follow the procedures but also to propose improvements if they don’t work.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

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

Mike Cardus

APRIL 15, 2011

Once people, organizations, leadership can chart and explain the Main Useful Function of what they do, to those they do it too-then insights into innovation and improvement can be made. Examining the Main Useful Function will solve problems and break psychological inertia that comes from not knowing. In family?

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

A2 Beyond training, experiential learning sessions & workshops involving problem solving, thinking and writing helps. Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. A2 Developing CriticalThinking needs practice to train the mind to think in a certain way. It is the leadership teams role.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70