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. What a great way to build a Virtual-Team by having a team member on skype while developing team Goals and Roles. High Ropes Course.

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TRIZ Team Simon Workshop 110

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Organizational Development Work. Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. An Additional outcome of this process, that was determined through interviews with the staff and Management team, was increased trust in the competence and effectiveness of the organizations leadership.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

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. Here is a link to a PDF that walks through eight common causes of stuckness in thinking or team development. In what ways could that system be developed? Video Transcript.

Cost 88

Cost TRIZ Innovation Operations 88

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

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

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.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 16

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.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 17

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.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28