Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Sometimes we use the presentation concepts and discussion as a starting point for a TRIZ Structured Innovation Process. Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Problem Solving Products Team Building Activity Team Training brainstorming activity creativity to innovation innovation activities innovation training TRIZ'

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

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

Contact Mike and begin to create successes that lead to increased effectiveness of teams and leaders that result in improved productivity and people who love the work they do. Interested in your organization or team having a success story? michael cardus is create-learning. image by Pink Sherbet Photography.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

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? For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15

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. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. 9) break down barriers between organizations.

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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. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data.

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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. That’s in this video. On to the inquiry: In what ways can we use / re-use existing resources?

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes. Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems. How to have discussions to lead others to think differently. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions.

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Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 128

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Share information amongst and between functions to reduce redundant work and speed productivity. Challenge old ways of thinking and design new paradigms to drive greater success. Use existing resources to their greatest capacity.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

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?

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering. Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Tuesday’s, 9am – 4:30pm. Learn more and REGISTER.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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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