Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. 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

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 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

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

JULY 26, 2012

Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation from Michael Cardus. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation. If you have no problems, you have no reason to innovate. How do you define innovation?

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Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

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. As you read through responses we received with this exercise we were able to Converge and Diverge upon many ideas, processes, and solutions that we would never have thought of if we did not use this Quality Innovation Tool.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. 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.

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Innovation Creativity Participative Business Model 107

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. Contact Mike … to make your team better.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

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

MAY 24, 2011

Contact me to make your leaders & teams better. Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

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. 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.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions. Use existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions.

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Team Workshop Learning-by-Doing Innovation 128

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

Once our thinking freezes in place the friction of innovation and growth ceases to happen. The more experience we have, more reinforcement of psychological inertia, more belief in our constructs - which freezes our thinking in place.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

APRIL 15, 2011

Once people, organizations, leadership can chart and explain the Main Useful Function of what they do, to those they do it too-then insights into innovation and improvement can be made. Examining the Main Useful Function will solve problems and break psychological inertia that comes from not knowing. In community?

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The 5 Whys is a question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem. If you work in any kind of manufacturing and now most healthcare organizations you have heard of the ‘5 Whys’.

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Team Report Learning-by-Doing Banking 157