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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Innovation, change, the ability to notice patterns, and try unique or novel approaches will continue to be a differentiator in your organization , team, and self. In a recent webinar on change and innovation , I shared processes and ways to support innovation in your work : . Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness.

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Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows

Mike Cardus

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. Larger organization, More product offerings, More staff, More customers, Outsourcing much of sales, Global Market. Customer phoned or physically came to the location.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. In our daily lives, moreover, we can see a very persuasive natural experiment playing out in the realm of marketing communications and advertising. This is not merely a logical theory.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. Customers. 1) Create constancy of purpose. Voice of the customer. Processes.

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