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As Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, I live a passionate personal mission to cause the spontaneous combustion of creativity, innovation, and compassionate intelligence everywhere!

At Creative Sage™, we help corporations, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, project teams, entrepreneurs, consultants, authors, artists, performers and others to create outstanding marketing strategies, communications, solutions, services and products. We design dynamic, cutting-edge innovation programs that are tailored to our clients' individual needs for maximum return on investment in innovation management.

We coach and mentor executives, and we also coach accomplished, creative professionals and their organizations to revolutionize the concept of "retirement" and create powerful new lives, projects and initiatives, including Social Entrepreneur projects and partnerships between corporations, nonprofits and philanthropists. We use highly creative and effective methods to help people in mid-life or at any age to navigate transitions in business or in life. We'll coach your inner innovator out of hiding...we help you innovate to be great!

Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates was our original company name, where we've focused on marketing communications, public relations, fundraising, performing arts presentation, and management consulting in the entertainment industry and nonprofit arts. Known for our innovative approaches and story angles, and our strategic capabilities, we have also served a variety of business and technology clients, including working in various capacities on multimedia and marketing projects for Fortune 500s, major universities, healthcare companies, environmental/sustainability, and trade associations. We've also added social media and Internet marketing and PR to our mix of services. We bring your message to the world, and the world to you. Let's start a conversation!

~Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer, Creative Sage™/ Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates

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I'm honored to be a contributing author to the 2011 best-selling business book, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (Twitter Innovation chat and web site); edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. You can order it here: http://amzn.to/OI_CS
I co-wrote the chapter, "Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing," with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book at: http://bit.ly/OI_CS_Google

Oct 25

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Today we recognize that creativity is possible and desirable in every nook and cranny of every organization and that every person is capable of delivering useful novelty to her organization. The connected world is making possible the application of hundreds of creative new solutions to almost everything on a daily basis, fundamentally changing the ways we do business and interact with other people. In particular crowdsourcing allows for willing people to supply free information and skills in all areas and opens new ways for funding new business ventures.

Perceptions of personal creativity have evolved too. We now recognize that creativity is not an area reserved for a small elite of gifted geniuses, but a set of skills available to everybody to develop. And neuroscience is opening up areas of research into the human mind and what defines its creative potential that would have been unimaginable even ten years ago.

We are grappling with the relative importance of individual and team creativity, while acknowledging that no innovation can ever be realized fully by a single individual. Beyond individual and team we are recognizing the importance of culture and climate in fostering innovation in organizations. We are expanding our studies of the creative unit to include communities, cities, societies and whole countries. And the public sector joins in and so do NGOs. Social innovation extends creative practice further into areas not often touched by the private sector.

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From: Innovation Excellence — Why Creativity will Never Be the Same Again

By Dimis Michaelides