Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The engineers had statistics, charts, specifications for all sorts of things…and I was there to facilitate the team through Innovation Models to develop a solution to this vibrating screw. Things are rough and I am not sure what innovation and problem-solving methods + models I can throw at you.

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Below is ONE Quality Tool commonly used in TRIZ that we used to begin in framing the context of our solution. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process. OR If speed were extremely slow what would success look like, how would that happen, in what ways could that system be developed?

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation :: 1:30-2:30pm. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Outcomes from Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. 10/15 – Conference Day.

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Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar 102

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

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. In what ways could that system be developed? Video Transcript. DTC Operator.

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Cost TRIZ Innovation Operations 88

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2011

From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester. From a workshop on TRIZ Innovation that I led for Syracuse University. I thought this idea was rather innovative and did solve the problem we were facing. High Ropes Course.

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TRIZ Team Simon Workshop 110

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. Each window is reviewed on time-scales to best plan for future solutions and ideal outcomes to ensure that the system, super-system and sub-system develop to achieve the ideal solutions.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

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. Three out of the five days will be held at an organization where innovation and creativity is happening in real-time.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

” So, when the team shared the key problems that were holding back progress, Conley turned to something he knew rather well: a method for innovation that originated in 1946 with Russian scientist and writer Genrich Altshuller. “No, I just know a systematic innovation methodology.” And guess what?

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TRIZ Altshuller Tips Innovation 82

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. Consider ideas created by DTC extremes: Dimensions: If dimensions were extremely large what would success look like, how would that happen, in what way could that system be developed?

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Operations Tools Quality TRIZ 104

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. To effectively transfer your creative ideas into innovative solutions. Contact Mike.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Thinking through TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving). Using SOLVED to develop pattern recognition and building multiple experiences will increase your work complexity and skills to make sense of unknown and unknowable challenges. . This feeling has always been there, and covid19 has made it more obvious. SOLVED CARDS.

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TRIZ Team Construction Video 118

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. 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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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

The idea of using resources that you already have as building blocks to develop variations and growth, is something that amazes me. Taking existing skills, developing an understanding then moving into personal-mastery that leads to innovation. What are you already doing that is innovative with what you have?

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Last week, I was invited as a guest on PeopleMatters #TChat (Twitter chat) on the topic of developing critical thinking muscle within the organization and the role of learning and development. Q2:How can Critical Thinking be developed? Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. What are some of your favorite innovation tools? Interested in learning how to use Innovation Tools to solve problems and increase the effectiveness of planning within workplaces?

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Operations Cost Tools Innovation 112

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. Once our thinking freezes in place the friction of innovation and growth ceases to happen. You are bound by individual construct of reality. This is the continual practices, prejudices, experiences and beliefs (false and true) you contain within your brain.

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Construction Learning-by-Doing Definition Team 112

Mike Cardus

APRIL 6, 2012

I serve on the ASQ Human Development & Leadership Division Board as the Education Chair, ASQ Buffalo NY Section as the Community Liaison. When you’re looking for ways to break out of a mindset and spark innovation, use nine windows. to read the entire article CLICK HERE. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Tools Quality Education Globalization 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. Strapped for cash in an era of marketing budget cuts, they make innovative use of new — and cheaper — media. This is not merely a logical theory.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

How interested are people in innovation — and how does that change cross-culturally? We've found that these questions point to a new need for innovative cultures in the world today (distinct from innovative companies ). Note that even without data from China, Asia is bubbling with interest in innovation.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 16

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Improvement and Innovation.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28