Making the incredible credible

InspireChilli was set up this month with a registration number from company house ending in 007.  We might be pushing it to make an early claim as the James Bond of thinking, but we share a common purpose – to kick some arse in the world.

We live in a society that has not learned how to fully harness its resources for good.  Whether it is young people dealing with homelessness, 30 somethings unhappy in their work, or elders isolated in communities, our life transitions seem endlessly disrupted from paths of full potential. 

InspireChilli has a license for innovation to break through these ‘same old’ limits. We are not a hero with quips, fast-cars, gadgets, or fancy hairstyles.  We want to focus on the source of what can make innovation work for and with others, particularly within the charity and beyond profit sector.  That special ingredient is what we call the ‘inspire chilli’.  It is the hot secret that brings zing and zen to help innovation make the incredible credible again.

There are five rules to making the incredible credible:

1.  Innovation must be about solutions, not raising funds and profile for existing ideas that haven’t solved what they claim to address.   There are more jobs for innovators in charity fundraising than there are in charity thinking and action. That is symbolic of a misbalance in our universe.  Making the incredible credible is to focus on the 'hot chilli' of what our real purpose and impact should be and how to make that happen in everything we do.  
2. Innovation must be more than smoke and mirrors. You don’t need an expert to do it for you.  You shouldn’t need to buy a dictionary to understand what ‘innovators’ are talking about. It’s a mindset and skill with a set of tools that can be taught and acquired through guided experience.  Making the incredible credible is to focus on the 'hot chilli' of what you can learn and do to be the innovation in your own life and work, and how to bring that to others.
3. Innovation must be the new status quo.  Rather than treating innovation as an external force to disrupt the system, the real opportunity is to reconfigure our systems to be driven by innovation.  Innovation is not a staff away day, a project team, another pilot, a brainstorm. Innovation is the energy that can be built inside an organisation or system and the people who work within and through it. Making the incredible credible is to focus on embedding the 'hot chilli' of innovation into what and how you do things all the time.
4. Innovation must be something we can treasure.  We treasure things that have meaning and value to us, through our personal experience, learning and language.  When the impact of innovation requires another bunch of consultants and processes to capture and explain it, then its credibility is artificial.  Making the incredible credible is to tap into the 'hot chilli' of how we understand our lives and then connect that forward to what we do in our work and relationships.
5.  Innovation must be an equaliser.  It’s a special jazz where the players listen and respond to each other’s rhythm.  Innovation that does not involve all its parties in an active process of co-creation and collaboration lacks meaning.  The language of beneficiaries, users, creators, deliverers and managers has a false dynamic.  Innovation is the fusion of experiences and talents into new potential.   Making the incredible credible is the art of bringing everyone into the 'hot chilli' space where real breakthroughs are made together.

These fives rules form the manifesto for what and how InspireChilli wants to 'do' when it parachutes from the sky in October this year. If any of them pull a chord, why not connect for a conversation...

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