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. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Partner Separation. Bright :: Blurry :: Blind. Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows.

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

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. Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Diminished “stuckness” in your thinking.

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Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar 102

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

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. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program.

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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. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. DTC Operator. Generally, DTC Operator is set up for more technical problems.

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Cost TRIZ Innovation Operations 88

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Interest is high in Six Sigma, ideas management, innovation management, product design, and in strategic terms like "adjacency.". 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 16

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28