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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. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. DTC Operator. The first process is to identify the problem or the challenge.

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Managerial Leadership Training Tool: Using DTC Operator Innovation Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – and at the same time, reduce operating time and costs. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. 10/16 – Full Day Seminar.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. 1.716.629.3678. Partner Separation. What do you think?

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

You need to use reliable processes for action and continually improve your processes based on studying your results. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones.

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The Global Innovation Interest Index

Harvard Business Review

"Creative talent" is represented by the orange bar, whereas the red bar represents the term "innovation process" and the blue "innovation and creativity.". Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.". Source: Google Insights for Search.