What Inspires Me To Innovate

These days it takes little to inspire me to exercise #innovative effort. Those people that know me personally maybe surprised to learn that it was only in recent years that I realised the fullest scale of passion I have for the topic of #innovation.

But perhaps you the reader, maybe a better judge of that …

If you were to measure innovation success by means of total financial gain, I would perhaps be seen as a failure, because I don’t have a huge house in the Hampton’s, a big red Ferrari in the garage or a second home in Spain for my holidays. I have however, been practising #invention and innovation since an young age (a story for another post maybe). Only recently did I fully identify the true scale of my capacity to fail or succeed and more importantly, learn through invention and innovation.

In my case, experience, learning and knowledge sharing are the key drivers of creativity, invention and innovation. I am very much the pragmatist, who loves to learn by doing and progress based upon experience. When I learn I tend to invest all my existing assimilated knowledge, effort and passion into capturing and creating new knowledge assets and then sharing these assets with anyone who has an interest.

These often include:

Project management tools, techniques, practices and processes ( See: http://projects.ie )
Skills development training, coaching and mentoring tools and processes ( See: https://www.facebook.com/innovationworks.ie )
Innovation workshop games, process models and tools ( In development )
Adult learning processes, skills development programme’s ( See: https://www.facebook.com/TheJobsFactory )
Online team collaboration virtual tools ( Coming soon )
Adult learning platforms and networks such as Udemy, Edmodo, Moodle, Open Learning, Self Learning and Innovation Networks

Oh yes … and yet more tools.

I’m inspired to create these because of my delight in any opportunity to infect others and share my passion for all things innovation, problem solving, project management, knowledge sharing, agile and lean ( #LeanInnovation and #LeanStartup specifically )

For a list of the most successful or social inventions and innovations over my 30 years in business development and 20 years in technology, visit my LinkedIn profile at: ie.linkedin.com/in/brendonmcloughlin/

For the moment however, this post focus’s only on the #inspirations which continue to #inspire me and may help to inspire others to innovate, including:

Bumping into problems searching for solutions
The passion and desire to experiment and explore
The insights of Sir Ken Robinson and his insightful views on creativity and innovation in education and the arts ( See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY )
The story telling of Guy Kawasaki captured in this book ‘The Art of the Start’. ( See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlwuafyUUo )
Innovative speakers such as Paul Sloane and his book The Innovative Leader
Innovative thinkers such as Clayton Christensen’s theory of ‘Disruptive Innovation’ / a model for economic growth ( See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkoCZ4vBSI )
My passion to prove that “Everyone is creative and everyone can #innovate”
My pursuit of my vision to realise a simple practical and cost effect process of innovation. (See: http://research.projects.ie )

This personal list of inspirations includes those which come quickly to my mind, so the list is far from final or totally inclusive.

Innovation is, for me, an ongoing delight of learning and positive constructive failure. As to the deeper details of how and why these inspirations inspire me, that maybe a subject of further posts or perhaps even a book exploring funny stories, happy but harsh home truths and lots of self criticism driving my innovation efforts.

Such inspirations are the birthing point of innovation capacity. It is not that I have something special, because I don’t believe I do. It is perhaps because I embrace failure, desire learning and love the challenge of problem solving and joining the dots.

Perhaps the biggest contributing factor for me, is a selfish passion to witness others as they first realise their inspiration and knowledge that “everyone can innovate”, including them.

While that is what inspires me to innovate, perhaps even more importantly,

WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

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