Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation :: 1:30-2:30pm. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Outcomes from Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. 10/15 – Conference Day.

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Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar 102

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

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. Share information amongst and between functions to reduce redundant work and speed productivity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

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. Smaller company, Less need for product, Only phones No Internet, Sold-Directly to Customer. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Issues frequently address development of high functioning teams, retention of talent, innovative process mapping, interpersonal and intergroup conflict, coaching of leaders, and facilitating behavioral skills to increase organizational and personal effectiveness. Interested in your organization or team having a success story?

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? What do users across the world really want, how can we uncover and design for their unmet needs, and what services can we attach to products to stay close to our customers? Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data. One such collection of work alone looked at more than 500,000 patents and innovations.).

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

Much of my work with Innovation stems from organizations, teams, as well as individuals taking what they already know and allowing themselves to make small adjustments towards new and improved products, processes and services. What are you already doing that is innovative with what you have? That’s in this video.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions.

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Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 128

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Mike Cardus

APRIL 15, 2011

This week I have been thinking about the Main Useful Function of various positions within organizations; What is the Main Useful Function of Human Resources, Quality Control, Engineering, Sales, Production, Management? If I was sitting with you could you state the purpose or purposes for which the position you have was made? In community?

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. Roadblocks in the form of established processes, drive for productivity/speed over quality, mindset of what worked in the past – Sahana Chattopadhyay. – Tanmay Vora. Build a “love for solving problems” – Rajesh Lele. – Tanmay Vora.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70