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. Coaching Peak Performance.

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. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

Operations 128

Operations Training Tools Planning 128

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.

TRIZ 70

TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

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. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Leadership.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering. Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices. Thinking Through Innovation.

Innovation 107

Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

We developed a small lexicon of terms that represent a wide spectrum of innovation activities outside of the core R&D and patent area. Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.". Source: Google Insights for Search.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15