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.

TRIZ 110

TRIZ Team Simon Workshop 110

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). Leadership. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Using a mixture of inventive problem solving, creative problem solving and brain based leadership models the participants will find solutions to existing organizational situations and develop the steps to incorporate these innovations into their work. Howard Zemsky , Managing Partner, Larkin Development Group. Learn more and REGISTER.

Innovation 107

Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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?

Human Resources 83

Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2012

Innovation is a repeatable system-that-drives behavior in people, that are goal driven (by a Manager, themselves, or a customer), to fix an existing problem OR to fix an hypothesized future problem. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation.

Creativity 134

Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. a) Leadership to Demonstrate open culture to challenge status quo b) L&D to Drive c) People to be naturally inquisitive! Managers, leaders & each individual. Managers as coaches. It is the leadership teams role.

TRIZ 70

TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The 5 Whys is a question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem. If you work in any kind of manufacturing and now most healthcare organizations you have heard of the ‘5 Whys’.

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Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157