Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I am really excited to be offering this workshop through Buffalo Business First and Canisius Center for Professional Development. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – and at the same time, reduce operating time and costs.

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TRIZ Innovation Workshop Hotels 102

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. At the end of day 3 we were all losing patience and we felt it was hopeless…so I said f**k it and tried the following version of the Miracle Question. With yourself?

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Perhaps the most kick-ass corporate team building photo I have ever seen! From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester.

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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. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. The item being planned goes in the center box. Super-System.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Contact me to make your leaders & teams better. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. The methods and processes worked! Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

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. Many, many problems stemmed from this what sounds like an ‘simple’ step- BUT ‘Simple ain’t always easy.’.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

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.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

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. Creativity to Innovation. View more presentations from michael cardus. Challenge old ways of thinking and design new paradigms to drive greater success.

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Creativity Innovation Workshop Business Model 99

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. The team creates a systems of practices, prejudices, experiences and beliefs ; that are reinforced through time and experience with your-self and the team. You are bound by individual construct of reality.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below.

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Operations Cost Tools Innovation 112