Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Ensuring that all the people are working to their personal capabilities.

Case Study 116

Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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. Increased customer complaints about service and interactions. Overtime increased by 30% in 3 years.

Operations 129

Operations Training Tools Planning 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.". TRIZ is a technique for orienting companies to future economic states as a starting point for invention today, and is widely deployed across Asia by companies like Samsung.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it. Of the 40 methods spelled out by the TRIZ approach, 8 involve what we would term scarcity.

Altshuller 15

Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

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

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Howard Zemsky , Managing Partner, Larkin Development Group. This will be an interactive session where participants can hear from and ask questions with the area’s leading innovation idea creators. Speakers and Organizations Involved: Patrick Finan , Founder & Principal, Block Club. Learn more and REGISTER.

Innovation 107

Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all have problems , every team has problems, every organization has problems I have yet to meet a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions. Contact Mike for more information.

Team 129

Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 129

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

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. Managers, leaders & each individual. Managers as coaches. senior leadership and middle management – Tanmay Vora. Managing resistance – Critical thinking isn’t easy and doesn’t come to everyone naturally.

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’.

Team 157

Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157