Cooling Tomorrow’s Data Centers through Innovation and Collaboration
July 25, 2023
During a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) workshop I attended in December 2021, I and other industry partners were asked about electricity use in data centers.
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Empowering Others to Find Their Innovative Voice
January 12, 2023
Over the previous several blog posts, we’ve outlined four behaviors that can help build a culture of innovation, but we’ve yet to go in depth on the behavior that has the greatest potential to yield innovation — empowerment.
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Building Adeptness in Ambiguity
December 09, 2022
The world is always changing, and the more a business specializes, the more dramatic these disruptions can become. Surrounding yourself with a team of diverse thinkers and keeping an open mind toward the future can help provide you with the flexibility to adapt and embrace big changes when they arrive.
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The Art of Diverse Collaboration
October 24, 2022
At one point or another, we’ve all been guilty of information hoarding, but this deprives team members of gaining valuable information that can lead to new ideas. Active and diverse collaboration is crucial to building a culture of innovation at any organization. And that’s why it’s the crux of our annual Innovation Summit.
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Why Invention Is Not Innovation
September 28, 2022
We’ve all walked past the “As Seen on TV” aisle at the grocery store and noticed the wide array of odd-looking tools and gadgets, all claiming to remedy the “Has this ever happened to you?” situation. However, an invention is not always an innovation. For a product, solution, or service to be innovative, it must have customer value.
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The Benefits of Contagious Curiosity
August 19, 2022
To help facilitate more innovative ways of thinking, a big part of my job is overseeing our Technology Scout program, where Vertiv team members are encouraged to think beyond the work in front of them and find new ideas and technologies that both pique their interests and stand to benefit the future of Vertiv.
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5 Behaviors That Cultivate a More Innovative Company Culture
July 29, 2022
Too often, we don’t ask our employees to take a step back and embrace a more curious, big-picture worldview. Instead, we rely on them to solve problems and develop solutions needed to help the company today, rather than two, five, or 10 years from now. This is just the nature of the business. But perhaps it’s time to recognize that for innovation to be born, there needs to be time and opportunity to not just put out fires but also invent better firehoses.
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