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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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. Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – is a tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. Here are some links to the innovation activities that were part of a recent Thinking-Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in?

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Mike Cardus

JULY 3, 2012

There is a problem solving methodology called TRIZ the theory of inventive problem solving that I have been using with organizations, teams, and mangers for 2 years now. Below is a generic model of how the TRIZ tools operate. You can read about this model at The TRIZ Journal. Do you use TRIZ?

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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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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. 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. What do you think?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 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. Join us as Michael Cardus, founder of Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Inc.

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