Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It
Innovation QI Larry Schmitt

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of […]

Innovation Roundtable – Houston 2019
Event Lisa Lavergne

In the Houston Innovation Roundtable, the discussion focused on upgrading an innovation system and gauging Innovation Maturity Level.

Calling BS on Corporate-Startup Engagement Myths
Article Larry Schmitt

The recent innovation ‘wave’ (let’s not call it a fad) of corporate-startup collaboration has spawned all kinds of ‘new’ practices, […]

How to Balance Sustaining and Strategic Innovation
Presentation Payal Mukherjee

Inovo Group’s managing partners Larry Schmitt and Steve Schwartz recently hosted a live Master Class in association with Innovation Leader. […]

Dance of the Corporate Innovators
Article Larry Schmitt

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – […]

Too Many Experts Can Hurt Your Innovation Projects
Article Larry Schmitt

The natural tendency of companies that are trying to enter a new space is to ‘go to the experts’. After […]

Why designers need systems thinking
Article Inovo

Design thinking is big in the corporate world. Ever since Tim Brown wrote his seminal book ‘The Art of Innovation‘ […]

Digital Transformation of Industries
Article Larry Schmitt

This is a fairly lengthy and comprehensive report put out by the World Economic Forum, with Accenture, on the coming […]

Larry Schmitt, Inovo CEO, is Speaking at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit
Event Inovo

Larry Schmitt, CEO of the Inovo Group, will be speaking at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit being held in New […]

Deconstructing Rumsfeld: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Age of Innovation
Article Larry Schmitt

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, […]

From Process to Framework
Article Larry Schmitt

Definition of Process[1] Sequence of interdependent and linked procedures which, at every stage, consume one or more resources to convert […]

Innovating Innovation
Article Larry Schmitt

The title of this collection of musings reflects a personal predilection to observe, understand, synthesize, theorize and model the way […]