Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Not only is trial and error limited by personal knowledge, thinking is also constrained by a “stuckness” in how things are and how they should be. Outcomes from Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation. Diminished “stuckness” in your thinking.

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Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar 102

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Buffalo NY Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Problem Solving Speaking Engagement Western New York buffalo business first organization development TRIZ' Register and Learn More… [link].

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TRIZ Innovation Workshop Hotels 102

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Sometimes we use the presentation concepts and discussion as a starting point for a TRIZ Structured Innovation Process. Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Problem Solving Products Team Building Activity Team Training brainstorming activity creativity to innovation innovation activities innovation training TRIZ'

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Team Building Innovation TRIZ Team 139

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

michael cardus creative problem solving creativity at work creativity to innovation creativity training buffalo ny innovation training buffalo ny innovation training rochester ny results based team building TRIZ training' Larkin District.

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Creativity Innovation TRIZ Seminar 135

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Leadership Agenda Leadership Coaching Management Manager Training Multi-Generational Training Organization Development Power Point Problem Solving Products Solution-Focused Speaking Engagement Successful Teams Team Building Team Building Activity Team Training enabling innovation solution focuced think (..)

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Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2011

Using a mixture of TRIZ, creative problem solving and brain based leadership models, the participants find solutions to existing organizational situations. I had to privilege of leading Creativity to Innovation at Syracuse University ; Creativity To Innovation Program Methodology. The workshop is highly interactive and learner centered.

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Workshop Creativity TRIZ Innovation 92

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Organization Development Problem Solving Solution-Focused Successful Teams Team Building create-learning team building and leadership executive coaching innovation models innovation training Miracle Question SFCT solution finding solution focused solution focused coaching SOLVED method team coaching technical (..)

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TRIZ Team Root Cause Analysis Team Building 146

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. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. The DTC Operator Algorithm. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest.

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Operations Tools Quality TRIZ 104

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2011

From a workshop on TRIZ Innovation that I led for Syracuse University. 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. I thought this idea was rather innovative and did solve the problem we were facing.

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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. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.

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Tools Quality TRIZ System 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

. · Working with a financial service group that was facing the challenge of regulations changing the amount of fair-share revenue they could claim as their total profit.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Developed, trained, applied methods in TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) for enhanced ability to innovate and utilize existing, new, and breakthrough methods to solve problems in team based methods. Skills in active listening and communication to subordinates peers and supervisors.

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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. One Solution Step was to create an internal Managerial Leadership Process, starting with the Managers and eventually being used in every level of the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. A2 Beyond training, experiential learning sessions & workshops involving problem solving, thinking and writing helps. – Tanmay Vora. Build a “love for solving problems” – Rajesh Lele. RED model helps – PearsonTalentLensInd.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

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

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

DMAIC methodology 8 hidden costs Triz. Improvement and Innovation. 5) Constantly and forever improve the system. 13) Institute a vigorous program of education and training. 17) Instill a new culture: be the first to improve continuously and show it off. 18) Offer training to promote self-improvement. 19) Celebrate innovation.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

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

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

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 12, 2012

inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity Tina Seelig HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (2012) How and why the tools and techniques of creative thinking are as essential to invention as the scientific method is to discovery There are six components that comprise what Tina Seelig characterizes as an “Innovation Engine.”

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Review Books Engineering Creativity 139

Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2012

Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation from Michael Cardus. When you face a challenge , and have to solve a problem you need to figure out how to fix-it. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation.

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Creativity Innovation Tools Sharpe 134

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems. How to have discussions to lead others to think differently. Model’s and methods to think differently about existing problems that will lead to innovative products and processes.

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Team Workshop Learning-by-Doing Innovation 128

Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering. Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Tuesday’s, 9am – 4:30pm. Learn more and REGISTER.

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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.

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Resources Video Innovation Skills 122

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Innovation & 21st Century Learning. View more presentations from michael cardus. I had the honor of giving a speech to Nardin Academy sharing some insight and lessons on Innovation and how it is or is not connected to 21st century learning.

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Innovation Conference Quality Skills 110

Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

DEFINITION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA. The psychological meaning of the word "inertia" implies an indisposition to change – a certain "stuckness" due to human programming. It represents the inevitability of behaving in a certain way – the way that has been indelibly inscribed somewhere in the brain.

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Construction Definition Learning-by-Doing Team 112

Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. View more presentations from michael cardus. 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. 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 1, 2011

Problems are faced daily. We continue to invent, create and solve daily problems. Teams continue to thrive, work and complete projects and tasks. Managerial leaders continue to set goals, complete their tasks, delegate and impact our lives. The Ideal Solution Statement.

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Delegation Resources System Learning-by-Doing 98

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

APRIL 15, 2011

Main Useful Function is the purpose or purposes for which the system was made. For example the main useful function of scissors is to cut paper, the main useful function of a freezer is to cool food, the main useful function of a broom is to move dirt. Defining main useful functions for objects can be challenging.

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Human Resources Engineering Objective Innovation 83

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Digging a little deeper into the US-specific data, we can also see that the more future oriented term "Open Innovation" and the current in-vogue term "Design Thinking" are beginning to close on the very tools-based term " TRIZ " in the United States. Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Six Sigma TRIZ Globalization Innovation 15