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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. I bought it many years ago while trying to learn more about TRIZ and problem-solving. Now, it’s important here in this process to include your team. You can do this by yourself. What would that do? Video Transcript. That’s fine.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Hire Mike of Create-Learning to Think Differently & Enable Innovation within your company and team. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems.

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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Burnout and stress increase when people do not have effective tools and skills to manage work demands and when they don’t know how to move from “survival anxiety” to “change anxiety”. michael cardus is create-learning. At the Millennium Hotel.

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Identifying the Solution 1st, Makes Things Easier

Mike Cardus

There is a problem solving methodology called TRIZ the theory of inventive problem solving that I have been using with organizations, teams, and mangers for 2 years now. By no means am I an expert, continuing to learn and apply. Below is a generic model of how the TRIZ tools operate. What do you think?

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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

AND before you leave I have one last thing… think about this question and return with an answer for the team at 0800 tomorrow morning. Then you do what you normally do after work. What do you think? How could you use a variation of the Miracle Question with your team? michael cardus is create-learning.

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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. Following exploring all the nine windows we ask; Can we do something at the Sub-System, System, Super-System level in advance to fix the problem or improve the system?

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