Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. I’ve Been working on a series of workshops and consulting on innovation and developing a culture of innovation.

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Develop a 3 minute presentation sharing their ideas and concepts for innovation / solution-finding based upon the two word phrase. In developing these presentation ideas teams may create prototypes, sketches, ideal solutions, flowcharts, or just speeches to share with the larger group. Idea From: Gamestorming. HIRE CREATE-LEARNING.

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

I am really excited and proud to be offering this Design & Innovation thinking series of workshop through Canisius Colleges’ Center for Professional Development. Howard Zemsky , Managing Partner, Larkin Development Group. How to Think Differently to Drive Results. Register Now! "How Larkin District.

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Creativity Innovation TRIZ Seminar 135

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

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. 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.

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

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. 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 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Developed, trained, taught management Coaching and feedback methods; Coaching adding value as a manager. Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

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

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

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

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. DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. How to apply the model. Deming System of Profound knowledge.

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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. 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 15

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

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. That’s in this video.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

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

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. ASQ The Global Voice of Quality , published one of my articles ‘Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows’ in the Idea Creation Tools and Problem Solving Tools , Knowledge Center.

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Tools Quality Education Globalization 74

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. 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 Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus.

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Operations Cost Tools Innovation 112

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. TRIZ is a technique for orienting companies to future economic states as a starting point for invention today, and is widely deployed across Asia by companies like Samsung.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15